Immigration
Feb. 21, 2009
U.S. Justices Take Up Issue Of ID Theft By Immigrants
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether people who unwittingly present other people’s identification numbers as proof that they can work in the Untied States should be charged with aggravated identity theft. Immigrant advocates such as Kristina Campbell, a Los Angeles-based staff attorney with immigrant rights group MALDEF, says the strategy has been used to unfairly prosecute illegal immigrants.
Daily Journal Staff Writer WASHINGTON - Last May, federal agents raided a meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, and arrested 389 workers on suspicion of being illegal immigrants. Key to the raid was the agents' focus on whether the workers were using invalid social security or alien registration numbers on their job applications. Many were using such invalid numbers, and 270 of them were subsequently charged with aggravated iden...
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