LESC - Law Enforcement Support Center

The mission of the Law Enforcement Support Center (LESC) is to protect the United States and its people by providing timely, accurate information and assistance to the federal, state and local law enforcement community—365 days a year, 24 hours a day.
The Law Enforcement Support Center (LESC), administered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is a critical point of contact for the national law enforcement community, providing a wide range of informational services to officers and investigators at the local, state and federal levels.
The primary users of the LESC are state and local law enforcement officers in the field who need information about foreign nationals they encounter in the course of their daily duties.
The LESC, located in Williston, Vermont, operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to provide timely and accurate information to law enforcement officers on the immigration status and identity of individuals who have been arrested or are under investigation for criminal activity.
As the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE has made information-sharing partnerships with other law enforcement entities a key strategy in the agency's homeland security mission. The LESC is the centerpiece of this information-sharing effort.
Established in 1994, the LESC has evolved into a national center for supporting law enforcement operations and investigations.
LESC technicians have ready access to a wide range of databases and intelligence sources, including the following:
ICE Immigration Databases
National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
Interstate Identification Index (III)
Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS)
U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) system
National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS)
In addition, the LESC analyzes and disseminates information received from the public about suspicious or criminal activity. Information obtained from the public via ICE's toll-free tip hotline—1-866-DHS-2-ICE—is analyzed by the professional law enforcement staff at the LESC and quickly forwarded to ICE field units for investigation or other action.
LESC information and support services also include the following:
Responding to queries from local, state and federal correctional and court systems on immigration status of individuals in custody.
Responding to FBI requests for criminal background and immigration status checks on individuals seeking to purchase firearms in the United States (as authorized by the Brady Act).
Responding to U.S. Secret Service requests for criminal background and immigration status checks on individuals visiting the White House.
Responding to queries related to employment issues at sites that could be vulnerable to sabotage, attack or exploitation—including airports, defense contractors and installations, chemical factories, petroleum refineries, and other critical infrastructure sites.
Electronic access to the LESC is available in all 50 states via the Immigration Alien Query (IAQ) screen on the National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System. Automated responses are returned to the requesting ORI address. A total of 594,352 queries were processed in FY 2003.
For information on how to access the Law Enforcement Support Center via NLETS please direct inquiries to:
LESC Computer Services Division 188 Harvest Lane Williston, Vermont 05495 802-872-6050
or via the NLETS Administrative Message (AM) to VTINS07S0
In order to be best served by this system the ideal protocol would be wireless broadband laptop in the patrol cars with internet access over a secured network if available. Electronic access to the LESC is available via the Immigration Alien Query (IAQ) screen on the National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System web site. Automated responses are returned to the requesting ORI address in the car.
The secondary access scenario would be to call in to the dispatch center and have them access the internet site or call in to the ICE communications center at 802-872-6020.
Enforcement and training funding is available through the Department of Homeland Security and the State

The state shall allocate funding to establish and implement a law enforcement training project to assess the feasibility of establishing a statewide e-learning training course covering basic immigration law enforcement issues to be used by State, local, and tribal law enforcement officers in order to improve and enhance their ability, during their routine course of duties.
State, local, and tribal law enforcement officers can assist Local and Federal immigration officers at the Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the enforcement of Local and Federal immigration employment laws if requested to do so.

The Department of Homeland Security shall reimburse States and localities for all reasonable expenses, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security, incurred by a State or locality in the incarceration and transportation of an illegal alien.
Compensation provided for costs incurred under such subparagraphs shall be the average cost of incarceration of a prisoner in the State, as determined by the chief executive officer of a State (or, as appropriate, a political subdivision of the State) plus the cost of transporting the criminal or illegal alien from the point of apprehension, to the place of detention, and to the custody transfer point if the place of detention and place of custody are different.
State and local law enforcement officials have the general power to investigate and arrest violators of federal immigration statutes without prior ICE knowledge or approval, as long as they are authorized to do so by state law. There is “no extant federal limitation” on this authority. The 1996 immigration control legislation passed by Congress was intended to encourage states and local agencies to participate in the process of enforcing federal immigration laws.1
Immigration officers and local law enforcement officers may detain an individual for a brief warrantless interrogation where circumstances create a reasonable suspicion that the individual is illegally present in the U.S. Specific facts constituting a reasonable suspicion include evasive, nervous or erratic behavior, dress or speech indicating foreign citizenship, and presence in an area known to contain a concentration of illegal aliens. Hispanic appearance alone is not sufficient.6 Immigration officers and police must have a valid warrant or valid employer’s consent to enter work places or residences.2
Any vehicle used to transport or harbor illegal aliens, or as a substantial part of an activity that encourages illegal aliens to come to or reside in the U.S. may be seized by an immigration officer and is subject to forfeiture. The forfeiture power covers any conveyances used within the U.S.3
In addition to the federal statutes summarized above, state laws and local ordinances controlling fair labor practices, workers compensation, zoning, safe housing and rental property, nuisance, licensing, street vending, and solicitations by contractors may also apply to activities that involve the hiring of illegal alien workers.
1. U.S. v. Ontoniel Vasquez-Alvarez, 176 F.3d 1294 (10th Cir.1999), cert. denied, SC 99-5643 (Oct. 4, 1999).
2. U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873, 884-887 (1975).
3. INA 274(a), (b)(1).
Prepared by Alex Segura

The Law against Hiring or Harboring Illegal Aliens

The Law against Hiring or Harboring Illegal Aliens
Provided by Utah Minuteman Project – Used by permission
The following is an overview of federal law on hiring and harboring illegal aliens. It is not a substitute for professional legal counsel in specific situations.
Summary
A person (including a group of persons, business, organization or local government) commits a federal felony when he:
· assists an alien whom he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him to obtain employment,
· encourages that alien to remain in the U.S., by referring him to an employer, by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
· knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.
Penalties upon conviction include criminal fines, imprisonment, and forfeiture of vehicles and real property used to commit the crime.
Anyone employing or contracting with an illegal alien without verifying his work authorization status is guilty of a misdemeanor. Aliens and employers violating immigration laws are subject to arrest, detention, and seizure of their vehicles or property. In addition, individuals or entities who engage in racketeering enterprises that commit (or conspire to commit) immigration-related felonies are subject to private civil suits for treble damages and injunctive relief.
Recruitment and Employment of Illegal Aliens
It is unlawful to hire an alien, to recruit an alien, or to refer an alien for a fee, knowing the alien is unauthorized to work in the United States.1 It is equally unlawful to continue to employ an alien knowing that the alien is unauthorized to work.2 Employers may give preference in recruitment and hiring to a U.S. citizen over an alien with work authorization only where the U.S. citizen is equally or better qualified.3
It is unlawful to hire an individual for employment in the United States without complying with employment eligibility verification requirements.4 Requirements include examination of identity documents and completion of Form I-9 for every employee hired. Employers must retain all I-9s, and, with 3 days advance notice, they must be made available for inspection.
Employment includes any service or labor performed for any type of remuneration within the United States, with the exception of sporadic domestic service by an individual in a private home.5 Day laborers or other casual workers engaged in any compensated activity (with the above exception) are employees for purposes of immigration law.6
An employer includes an agent or anyone acting directly or indirectly in the interest of the employer. For purposes of verification of authorization to work, employer also means an independent contractor, or a contractor other than the person using the alien labor.7 The use of temporary or short-term contracts cannot be used to circumvent the employment authorization verification requirements.8
If employment is to be for less than the usual three days allowed for completing the I-9 Form requirement, the form must be completed immediately at the time of hire.9
An employer has constructive knowledge that an employee is an illegal unauthorized worker if a reasonable person would infer it from the facts.10 Constructive knowledge constituting a violation of federal law has been found where (1) the I-9 employment eligibility form has not been properly completed, including supporting documentation, (2) the employer has learned from other individuals, media reports, or any source of information available to the employer, that the alien is unauthorized to work, or (3) the employer acts with reckless disregard for the legal consequences of permitting a third party to provide or introduce an illegal alien into the employer’s work force.11 Knowledge cannot be inferred solely on the basis of an individual’s accent or foreign appearance. Actual specific knowledge is not required. For example, a newspaper article stating that ballrooms depend on an illegal alien workforce of dance hostesses was held by the courts to be a reasonable ground for suspicion that unlawful conduct had occurred.12
It is illegal for non-profit and religious organizations to knowingly assist an employer to violate employment sanctions, regardless of claims that their convictions require them to assist aliens.13 Harboring or aiding illegal aliens is not protected by the First Amendment.14
It is a felony to establish a commercial enterprise for the purpose of evading any provision of federal immigration law. Violators may be fined or imprisoned for up to 5 years.15
Encouraging and Harboring Illegal Aliens
It is a violation of law for any person to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection in any place, including any building or means of transportation, any alien who is in the United States in violation of law.16 Harboring means any conduct that tends to substantially facilitate an alien to remain in the U.S. illegally.17 The sheltering need not be clandestine, and harboring covers aliens arrested outdoors, as well as in a building. This provision includes harboring an alien who entered the U.S. legally, but has since lost his legal status.
An employer can be convicted of the felony of harboring illegal aliens who are his employees if he takes actions in reckless disregard of their illegal status, such as ordering them to obtain false documents, altering records, obstructing INS inspections, or taking other actions that facilitate the alien’s illegal employment.18 Any person who within any 12-month period hires ten or more individuals with actual knowledge that they illegal aliens or unauthorized workers is guilty of felony harboring. 19
It is also a felony to encourage or induce an alien to come to or reside in the U.S. knowing or recklessly disregarding the fact that the alien’s entry or residence is in violation of the law.20 This crime applies to any person, rather than just employers of illegal aliens. Courts have ruled that “encouraging” includes counseling illegal aliens to continue working in the U.S. or assisting them to complete applications with false statements or obvious “errors”.21 The fact that the alien is a refugee fleeing persecution is not a defense to this felony, since U.S. law and the UN Protocol on Refugees both require that a refugee must report to immigration authorities “without delay” upon entry to the U.S.
The penalty for felony harboring is a fine and imprisonment for up to five years. The penalty for felony alien smuggling is a fine and up to ten years imprisonment. Where the crime causes serious bodily injury or places the life of any person in jeopardy, the penalty is a fine and up to 20 years imprisonment. If the criminal smuggling or harboring results in the death “of any person,” the penalty can include life imprisonment. Convictions for aiding, abetting, or conspiracy to commit alien smuggling or harboring, carry the same penalties. 22 Courts can impose consecutive prison sentences for each alien smuggled or harbored.23 A court may order a convicted smuggler to pay restitution if the alien smuggled qualifies as a “victim” under the Victim and Witness Protection Act.24
Conspiracy to commit the crimes of sheltering, harboring, or employing illegal aliens is a separate federal offense punishable by a fine of up to $10,000 or five years imprisonment.25
Enforcement
A person or entity having knowledge of a violation or potential violation of employer sanctions provisions may submit a signed written complaint to the INS office with jurisdiction over the business or residence of the potential violator, whether an employer, employee, or agent. The complaint must include the names and addresses of both the complainant and the violator, and detailed factual allegations, including date, time and place of the potential violation, and the specific conduct alleged to be a violation of employer sanctions. By regulation, the INS will only investigate third party complaints that have “a reasonable probability of validity.”26
Designated INS officers and employees, and all other officers whose duty it is to enforce criminal laws, may make an arrest for violation of smuggling or harboring illegal aliens.27
State and local law enforcement officials have the general power to investigate and arrest violators of federal immigration statutes without prior INS knowledge or approval, as long as they are authorized to do so by state law. There is “no extant federal limitation” on this authority. The 1996 immigration control legislation passed by Congress was intended to encourage states and local agencies to participate in the process of enforcing federal immigration laws.28
Immigration officers and local law enforcement officers may detain an individual for a brief warrantless interrogation where circumstances create a reasonable suspicion that the individual is illegally present in the U.S. Specific facts constituting a reasonable suspicion include evasive, nervous or erratic behavior, dress or speech indicating foreign citizenship, and presence in an area known to contain a concentration of illegal aliens. Hispanic appearance alone is not sufficient.29 Immigration officers and police must have a valid warrant or valid employer’s consent to enter work places or residences.30
Any vehicle used to transport or harbor illegal aliens, or as a substantial part of an activity that encourages illegal aliens to come to or reside in the U.S. may be seized by an immigration officer and is subject to forfeiture. The forfeiture power covers any conveyances used within the U.S.31
Private persons and entities may initiate civil suits to obtain injunctions and treble damages against enterprises that conspire or actually violate federal alien smuggling, harboring, or document fraud statutes under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).32 The “pattern of racketeering” activity is defined as commission of two or more of the listed crimes. A RICO “enterprise” can be any individual legal entity, or a group of individuals who are not a legal entity but are associated in fact, and can include non-profit associations.
Employers who aid or abet the preparation of false tax returns by failing to pay income or social security taxes for illegal alien employees, or who knowingly make payments using false names or social security numbers, are subject to IRS criminal and civil sanctions.33
U.S. nationals who have suffered intentional discrimination because of citizenship or national origin by an employer with more than 3 employees may file a complaint within 180 days of the discriminatory act with the Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices, U.S. Department of Justice.34
In addition to the federal statutes summarized above, state laws and local ordinances controlling fair labor practices, workers compensation, zoning, safe housing and rental property, nuisance, licensing, street vending, and solicitations by contractors may also apply to activities that involve illegal aliens.
1. INA 274A(a)(1)(A).
2. INA 274A (a)(2).
3. INA 274B(a)(4).
4. INA 274A(a)(1)(B)(i).
5. 46 USC 8704, 8 CFR 274a.1(f), (h).
6. Jenkins v. INS, 108 F.3d 195, (9th Cir.1997).
7. 8 CFR 274a.1(g).
8. 52 Fed. Reg. 16219 (May 1, 1987).
9. 8 CFR 274a.2(b)(1)(iii).
10. 8 CFR 274a.1(l).
11. 8 CFR 274a.1(l)(1).
12. Seven Star Inc. v. U.S., 933 F. 2d 791 (9th Cir., 1991).
13. AFSC v. Thornburgh 961 F.2d 1405 (9th Cir. 1992), Intercommunity Center for Peace and Justice v. INS, 910 F.2d 42 (2nd Cir. 1990).
14. U.S. v. Merkt 794 F.2d 950 (5th Cir. 1986), cert. denied 480 US 946.
15. INA 275(d).
16. INA 274(a)(1)(A)(iii).
17. U.S. v. Lopez, 521 F.2d 437 (2nd Cir 1975), cert. denied 423 US 995.
18. U.S. v. Kim, F.3d ---, 1999 WL 803256 (2nd Cir. Oct. 8, 1999).
19. INA 274(a)(3).
20. INA 274(a)(1)(A)(iv).
21. U.S. v. Oloyede, 982 F.2d 133 (4th Cir. 1992).
22. 274(a)(1)(B).
23. Vega-Murillo v. U.S., 247 F.2d 735 (9th Cir. 1957), cert. denied 357 U.S. 910.
24. U.S. v. Sanga, 967 F.2d 1332 (9th Cir. 1992).
25. 18 USCS 371.
26. 8 CFR 274a.9(b).
27. INA 274(c).
28. U.S. v. Ontoniel Vasquez-Alvarez, 176 F.3d 1294 (10th Cir.1999), cert. denied, SC 99-5643 (Oct. 4, 1999).
29. U.S. v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873, 884-887 (1975).
30. 63 ALR Fed.180.
31. INA 274(a), (b)(1).
32. 18 USC 1961-1968.
33. 26 USCS 7206.
34. INA 274B(d).
Updated 12/99
Utah Minuteman Project – Used by permission

Enforcement measures unclear within SB81, enforcement measures need to be clearly defined in the bills language

In SB81 there is language in Section 10 that flies in the face of federal law.

http://le.utah.gov/~2008/bills/sbillenr/sb0081.pdf
US Code Title 8
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/


Section 76-10-2701 (5) (a) and (b) gives a pass to religious denominations and organizations and their agents, officers, and members of the religious denomination or organization.

It seems there is a lack of consideration of the first amendments separation of church and state. Also it is in violation of federal law title 8 that reads;

A person (including a group of persons, business, organization or local government) commits a federal felony when he:
assists an alien whom he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him to obtain employment, encourages
that alien to remain in the U.S., by referring him to an employer, by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.

State government buildings Spanish signage

Is government buildings signage in English and Spanish only discriminatory and state sanctioned Hispanic favoritism? Where are all other languages?
Why not just us the international symbols system for foreign visitors rather then the state sanctioned discriminatory method currently in place in Utah?

In the United States, English is the national language only in an informal sense, by numbers and by historical and contemporary association. The US Constitution does not explicitly declare any official language, although the constitution is written in English, as is all federal legislation.
On May 8, 2007, Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) introduced Senate Bill S.1335, which would declare English as the official language of the government of the United States. The bill would require that the U.S. government conduct its official activities in English, repeal federal bilingual voting requirements, and
require naturalization ceremonies to be conducted solely in the English language. The bill contains a provision preventing it from pre-empting any law of any U.S. state.[10]
Previous incarnations of this bill were co-written and supported by Ron Unz, a California millionaire. He, along with his organization (U.S. English), has been pushing for the "English-Only" cause for many years.As of May 2007, several bills relating to English as a national language are pending in the U.S.House of Representatives.[11][12][13]

The Issuance, Acceptance and Reliability of the Mexican Consular Identification Cards being issued in Utah

Local police in communities with a large number of Mexican illegal aliens have been willing to accept the matricula because some identification is better than none. The ground rules seem to be that no arrests will be made for minor infractions. This means that no background checks are run. No fingerprints are taken. No criminal databases are checked.For Mexican citizens who posses one, the matricula has become a shield that hides any past criminal activity. But criminality is rampant in Mexico and, inevitably crosses our porous border. This is particularly true for drug traffickers, but also for money launderers and human smugglers, who have recently been

linked to organized crime in Mexico. Given the free pass that local police are giving to matricula holders, it is highly likely that Mexican criminals, irrespective of their legal status, obtain one from their consulate office. Mexican illegals also routinely commit crimes related to their illegal status. These include fraudulently obtaining U.S. birth certificates, Social Security numbers and driver’s licenses; engaging in sham marriages and other stratagems to obtain legal status; using fake U.S. immigration documents to receive
Government benefits; repeatedly crossing our border without permission, etc. Some local police believe it is not their job to enforce federal immigration law. But for the police to ignore federal immigration law is tantamount to subverting it. Foreign residents living here lawfully have U.S.-issued documents. If in accepting the matricula, an identity document needed only by illegal aliens, local police are failing to conduct background checks, they are abdicating their law enforcement responsibilities and putting their community at risk.

Mexican consuls call police to disperse big crowdshttp://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700237028,00.html

Instate Tuition fiasco is illegal, perpetrating Identity theft and creating state sanction separatist student groups

We have shown in testimony by Professor Kris Kobach former counsel to the White House and to the US attorney general who came to Utah to address the Utah legislature on two separate occasions during two separate legislative committee hearings discussing the instate tuition repeal bills. He has shown that the current structure of the instate tuition law was clear the law is discriminatory to students from other states and in violation of federal immigration law, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRAIRA)
http://www.numbersusa.com/responsible/104IIRAIRA.html
TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 14 > SUBCHAPTER II > § 1623
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/usc_sec_08_00001623----000-.html

Under current immigration law, Utah high school graduates who entered the United States unlawfully cannot legally work in the United States either before or after they graduate from a college or university. If they voluntarily leave the United States, they will not be eligible to re-enter legally for a minimum of ten years.
If students unlawfully in the United States find a job either during the time they are attending college or after they graduate, they are violating immigration law. If they work for a reputable employer who requires the completion of an I-9 form, they will have to present a Social Security card and some other form of identification. Since they cannot legally obtain a Social Security number, they will have to commit document fraud, a felony, in order to get one and if they falsify they I-9, the will have committed yet another felony.
"Identity thieves are no respecters of age. They will steal your children's ID, ruin their credit and hurt them in ways never thought possible before they can graduate from grade school,"
says Attorney General Mark Shurtleff. "Children are vulnerable even if parents do everything right." …The Identity thieves allegedly used the young victim's social security numbers to get jobs….
http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/PrRel/prjuly152005.htm

There is irrefutable proof that shows states that grant instate tuition to the children of aliens are creating state sanction ties to the radical separatist student group who calls themselves Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan (MEChA) and they bring the Raza Chicana/o Studies curricula they are teaching.
CBS News - When Tom Horne Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction finally acquired the program materials he requested, they included texts with titles such as Occupied America and The Pedagogy of Oppression. And according to John Ward, a Tucson teacher who saw his U.S. history course co opted by

the Raza Studies department, the Raza Chicana/o Studies curriculum’s focus is “that Mexican-Americans were and continue to be victims of a racist American society driven by the interests of middle and upper-class whites.”
When Ward raised concerns about Raza Chicana/o Studies (which is part of TUSD’s larger Ethnic Studies department) he was, despite being Hispanic himself, called a racist and eventually reassigned to another course. Ward told a reporter from the Arizona Republic that by the time he left the Raza Chicana/o Studies class, he had observed a definite change in the students: “An angry tone. They taught them not to trust their teachers, not to trust the system. They taught them the system wasn’t worth trusting.”
MEChA is still functioning fully funded by the Universities, state Scholarship Funds and grants.

Raza Studies-Chicana/o Studies defy American values.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/02/opinion/main4227721.shtml

Students march on State Capitol
http://media.www.dailyutahchronicle.com/media/storage/paper244/news/2006/01/31/News/Students.March.On.State.Capitol-1545356.shtml

Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA) - Calpulli Montañas del Norte
http://www.nationalmecha.org/about.html

University of Utah Chicano Studies Scholarship Fund Accepting Applications for the 2007 – 2008 year
http://www.diversity.utah.edu/news/Chicanoscholarship.html
http://www.ethnic.utah.edu/faculty-chicano.html

Minutemen say U policy on undocumented immigrants is illegal
http://media.www.dailyutahchronicle.com/media/storage/paper244/news/2006/01/31/News/Minutemen.Say.U.Policy.On.Undocumented.Immigrants.Is.Illegal-1545362.shtml

According to a Salt Lake Tribune poll released on January 13, 2007, 55 percent of registered voters support repealing in-state tuition. (No Tuition Break for Migrants, Most Say)
http://www.sltrib.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?articleId=5006731&siteId=297

Utah’s has a new group to support the unlawful residency of illegal alien in Utah.
Same players repackaged with the help of a U of U professor and MEChA students.

http://continue.utah.edu/eli/subanco.php

http://www.diversity.utah.edu/calendar.html

http://www.diversity.utah.edu/images/PDF

http://malcs.net/index.htm

Driver’s Privilege Card, the auto insurance illusion and the stealth amnesty that it helps create.

Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) + Driver’s Privilege Card + Mexican Consular Identification Card = Stealth Amnesty

All three are widely accepted in Utah for everyday transactions.

Gradually in several different states illegal aliens in this country are obtaining ID documents from those states or from foreign governments. Many states are starting to recognized these IDs that essentially legalize their presence inside the US and Utah.

Once in possession of these documents, the aliens can take part in business and government transactions they are not supposed to be able to conduct.The documents, in other words, constitute de facto amnesty, or stealth amnesty as various commentators have called it.

Let’s take a look at these documents and their effects.

Stealth Amnesty Document No. 1 is the matricula consular card issued by Mexican government to its citizens abroad.
The cards are supposed to entitle the Mexicans holding them to gain the help of Mexican consuls, but these days they have other applications.

Stealth Amnesty Document No. 2 is the Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) card issued by the Internal Revenue Service.
Its purpose is to allow foreign citizens, who do business here to pay income taxes, but there are some 6 million ITINs in circulation, and as Rep. Tom Tancredo says, "The IRS, unfortunately, hands these cards out like candy. There are not 6 million foreign businesses here, so what's the purpose of these numbers?"

Marti Dinerstein of the CIS told a congressional subcommittee in June, "It is assumed that individuals who receive an ITIN and do not file taxes are using it as official U.S. government identification to obtain bank accounts, government services and, ominously, driver's licenses."

Stealth Amnesty Document No. 3 is the Driver’s Privilege Card, which the ITIN helps you get in Utah. Some states (six to be exact) also accept the ITIN for a driver license. The driver license of course enables you to prove you are a US citizen or a legal visitor. It allows the holder all the right afforded to citizens and legal residents, those right include driving, banking and accessing government services.

Stealth Amnesty Document No. 4 is in-state tuition, not exactly a document but still a legal privilege that eight states already grant to illegal aliens but deny to real Americans from other states.

Nine more states are considering granting the same privilege to illegals. Not only does this allow illegals to gain public education at Americans' expense but also helps normalize their presence within the country, which is what amnesty is all about.
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2003/sep/06/20030906-110356-3298r/?page=1

The Utah Driver’s Privilege Card is modeled on Tennessee’s driver certificate program.
There is a growing disaster in the making with the practice of non-governmental acceptance of the Driver’s Privilege Card and its adverse affects. A legislative study is needed to understand the document fraud it perpetrates. Fake Utah Driver Licenses for those who refuse to get a Driver Privilege Cards.
http://utahminuteman.org/id10.htm

Tennessee realizes its mistake
On 5/3/2007 The Tennessee House voted by a wide margin to eliminate the driver certificate program for people who aren't U.S. citizens.
Federal investigators last year found that some testing centers were selling licenses and certificates to out-of-state illegal immigrants. Tennessee suspended the program briefly, followed by new regulations that only allow certificates for people in the country legally.
The House approved HB 1827 to eliminate Tennessee’s driving certificate program. This bill was introduced at the request of the Governor's office, and would put into law what has been policy since February of 2006 when the certificate program was suspended for undocumented immigrants.
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=44815

The Associated Press: The certificate law just kind of opened up a flood gate of everyone wanting to come here to get some sort of identification,'' said Knox County Sheriff Tim Hutchison, whose officers discovered 58 illegal immigrants used the same Knoxville address to get a certificate. Sounds like what was discover happening to the Utah driver license after the 2005 audit.

Utah 2005 Driver License audit report
http://le.utah.gov/audit/05_01ilr.pdf
Follow-Up of Sample Matching Driving Privilege (DP) Cards to Vehicle Insurance
http://legislature.utah.gov/audit/08_bilr.pdf
Majority of undocumented immigrants with driver cards insured
http://deseretnews.com/article/content/mobile/1,5620,695247263,00.html
Hispanic Groups Oppose "Driving Card" In Utah
http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2005/02/hispanic_groups.php
Man admits to shuttling immigrants from Ga. to get licenses
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13879291.htm