The Mexican Consulate is aggressively
promoting their illegal alien Matricula
Consular identification card in Florida. See
the article below describing distribution in
Jacksonville. This ID card is outrageous,
bogus and must be stopped before other foreign
governments start distribution.
FLIMEN will be working this problem in the
near future. You help is needed so please
consider the following actions:
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Write a letter to the editor.
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Inform FLIMEN (
dave@flimen.org)
if you become aware of the distribution by
the Mexican government of the cards.
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Inform FLIMEN (
dave@flimen.org)if
you become aware of any governmental
entities in Florida that accept the
cards. No need to tell us about banks.
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As usual, please get others to join FLIMEN
Alerts or FLIMEN Inner Circle.
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As usual, FLIMEN is extremely broke and
could use some donations for future
actions.
Thanks.
Dave,
dave@flimen.org
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http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/082805/met_19615782.shtml
Hundreds receive Mexican IDs
Consulate program
comes to city to issue cards expected to help
ease the lives of many.
By JEFF BRUMLEY,
The Times-Union
They came Saturday, about 500 of
them, with birth certificates and sometimes
with children in hand, hoping to obtain a
little piece of paper that could make their
lives as Mexican nationals in America and the
First Coast a lot easier.
The Mexican consulate in
Orlando advertised that its staff would be on
hand from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. to take
applications and issue official Mexican
identification cards. But by 5 p.m., there
were still at least 100 people waiting in the
auditorium at The Florida Times-Union building
in Riverside. The Times-Union was a co-sponsor
of the event.
In some cases, those waiting in line were
legal immigrants or American citizens, trying
to get the cards for themselves, friends or
relatives. In other cases, those applying were
undocumented aliens, mostly migrant farm
workers.
Either way, the Mexican consular ID cards
are expected to help those who get them to
open bank accounts, obtain medical treatment
and smooth the way with police, said Gilberto
Ramirez, a Jacksonville resident and president
of the Union de Mexicanos de Jacksonville.
The cards cannot be used alone to apply for
driver's licenses or Social Security cards,
Ramirez said.
By 4 p.m., about 210 of the photo ID cards had
been issued, said Irma Velez, coordinator of
documentation for the consulate.
The Mexican consulate operated Saturday in
Jacksonville as it does in other cities as
part of a mobile consulate program for those
who cannot travel to Orlando, Velez said.
"We bring the services to them because we
have to take care of our nationals, period,"
she said.
Ramirez said the applicants came from all
over North Florida, including Jacksonville,
Fernandina Beach, Orange Park, Green Cove
Springs and St. Augustine.
He said two more such events will be held in
Jacksonville in 2006.
That was unwelcome news to a protester who
stood along Riverside Avenue with a sign, "I
protest illegal immigration."
"I think they should be deported," said the
woman, a Jacksonville resident who did not
want her name published.
The woman had been joined by other
protesters earlier in the day.
Jacksonville resident Beatriz Padgett was
frustrated, too, but for a different reason.
Padgett waited in line from 11:45 a.m. to 3
p.m. Saturday in an unsuccessful effort to
obtain an ID card for a male relative. The
relative, who is 18, was born in Mexico to
American parents but is not recognized as a
citizen of either country.
Because of that, she said, her relative is
unable to drive, cannot legally work and
cannot attend college.
"He can get no Social Security number, no
driver's license, no nothing," Padgett said.
"He can't even open a bank account."
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