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Colorado bans Mexican ID cards



International Politics ProjectUSA
May 27, 2003

== TIME-OUT PROJECT ==

In a major victory for immigration reductionists, Governor Bill Owens of Colorado signed into law Friday a bill that bans acceptance by state agencies and Colorado municipalities of foreign-issued identification and consular ID cards. The bill, known as the "Secure and Verifiable Identity Document Act," prevents acceptance in Colorado of the matricula consular, the Mexican illegal alien ID card.

Thus, Colorado becomes the first state in the union to block the stated efforts of the Mexican government to use the matricula consular as a way to make an end run around Congress and achieve a "bottom up" amnesty for the millions of Mexican illegal aliens in the United States.

The bill goes into effect immediately. Now Denver, for example, which began accepting the cards after being lobbied by the city's Mexican consulate (in violation of the Vienna Convention), will have to find another way to hand out public services to Mexican nationals illegally residing in the United States...

A year ago, the matricula card looked unstoppable. With seemingly no opposition, cities, banks, and police departments across the country were rushing to recognize the card. A massive de facto amnesty looked inevitable, despite the fact that a 2001 Gallup Poll showed only 6 percent of Americans actually support a blanket amnesty for illegal aliens. However, the enactment of this law, which at one point in the legislative process was declared dead, marks a significant reverse for the Mexican government and its collaborators in the United States.

Along with Governor Owens, those who fought hard for the law deserve a public thank you -- especially the two original co-sponsors of the bill, Senator John Andrews and Representative Don Lee. Also fighting hard for the bill were Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo, former Colorado governor Dick Lamm, and Fred Elbel of the Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform.

Deserving special credit, and the support of the 85 percent of Americans who believe illegal immigration is a "serious problem," are the two national groups that drafted the original bill: Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement (FILE), and NumbersUSA.

The new law is a serious setback for ethnic-identity special interest groups like the Ford Foundation-funded Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), which recently issued an 18-page legal attack on FILE and FILE's legal arguments against acceptance by U.S. institutions of the matricula consular.

Immigration realists, long used to feeling that commonsense immigration policies were a lost cause, should savor this important victory.

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