A year after Judicial Watch reported a rise in illegal aliens using fake Puerto Rican birth certificates to obtain authentic U.S. passports and drivers’ licenses, the feds have busted a Massachusetts operation run by corrupt state workers. The state employees sold drivers’ licenses and state identification cards to illegal immigrants who bought Puerto Rican documents on the black market, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The operation perpetuated voter fraud because some of the false identities and addresses were used to vote in Boston, the state’s capital and largest city.
The case is the latest of many illustrating that there’s an epidemic of voter fraud in the U.S. that’s seldom reported in the mainstream media. It’s not clear how many false identities and addresses were used to fraudulently register to vote in Boston, but the feds indicate that it occurred in multiple cases and Judicial Watch is investigating the matter as part of a five-year-old Election Integrity Project. The scheme was operated by four taxpayer-funded employees at the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) along with two outside accomplices who sold Puerto Rican documents to illegal aliens. All six were recently arrested and charged with aggravated identity theft. They probably never would have been caught if not for an anonymous tip received by the Massachusetts State Police nearly two years ago and there’s no telling how long the illicit scheme operated.
The anonymous letter said that a corrupt RMV employee was providing stolen identifications and drivers’ licenses to individuals seeking false IDs, the DOJ announcement states. An investigation ensued and authorities discovered that the four clerks were working with a document vendor and document dealer to provide the licenses and official state ID cards to illegal immigrants in exchange for cash. “The scheme involved several steps,” the DOJ says. First, the document dealer sold a Puerto Rican birth certificate and U.S. Social Security card to the document vendor for approximately $900. The vendor would then sell the stolen identities for more than $2,000 to illegal aliens—some with criminal records—seeking legitimate identities in Massachusetts.
After the first layer of illicit transactions occurred, the counterfeit documents and false identities and addresses were used to fraudulently register clients to vote in Boston.
Illegal aliens would then bring the stolen identities to the RMV where the corrupt clerks worked and they would accept cash to illegally issue authentic documents, including drivers’ licenses and ID cards. “The clerks also accepted cash to use the RMV’s system to run queries, including Social Security number audits, to confirm that the identities the clients were stealing actually belonged to verifiable individuals,” the DOJ announcement states. The unscrupulous state workers face up to two years in prison, according to the feds, who won’t reveal the magnitude of the operation and how many authentic state documents were issued fraudulently to illegal aliens.
Last year Judicial Watch published a story about the increasing number of illegal aliens using fake Puerto Rican birth certificates to obtain authentic American documents. Located about 1,000 miles southeast of Florida, Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory about two decades after the Caribbean island was acquired from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American war. Puerto Ricans are American citizens at birth though they don’t have the right to vote in federal elections and the island has only one non-voting representative in Congress. In recent years a record number of Puerto Ricans have left their troubled island for the U.S. and a big chunk has settled on Florida. A recent study found that the island’s ongoing economic recession has led to a mass exodus not seen in more than five decades.
The U.S. government and its various agencies accept Puerto Rican birth certificates blindly even though fraud involving the easily forged documents has been pervasive for years.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2017/08/licenses-id-cards-sold-illegal-aliens-corrupt-state-workers-used-voter-fraud/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=action+alert&utm_term=members&utm_content=20190707200031
Florida could be the next blue state to issue licenses.
If either of the Florida driver’s license bills pass, it would become the 13th state—along with the District of Columbia—to offer illegal immigrants the privilege. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Vermont and Washington issue a license to applicants that provide a foreign birth certificate, passport or consular card. Washington State was the first to pass a law, in 1993, granting illegal aliens driver’s licenses. The next two states—New Mexico and Utah—enacted their measures in 2003 and 2005 respectively followed by Illinois (2012) and Vermont, Nevada, Maryland, Connecticut, Colorado and California in 2013. The District of Columbia also passed its law in 2013 and Hawaii and Delaware followed in 2015.
In 2013 Oregon passed a law that let illegal aliens get driver’s licenses but voters overwhelmingly approved a citizen’s veto referendum to suspend it a year later. Incredibly, a group of Mexican illegal immigrants sued to reverse the decision by Oregon voters, claiming that it was unconstitutional because it arbitrarily denies driving privileges “based on their membership in a disfavored minority group.” A federal judge in Eugene dismissed the lawsuit, finding that there was no discriminatory animus on the state’s part for refusing to issue illegal aliens driver cards.
Entire article at
https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2019/03/fla-may-become-13th-state-to-give-illegal-immigrants-drivers-licenses/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=action+alert&utm_term=members&utm_content=20190707201928
And in only one county in California
Los Angeles County may remove up 1,592,066 names from dirty voting rolls as a result of @JudicialWatch settlement. Big.
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