http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/04/04/us-immigration-reform-who-benefits/ The official Web log for Great Decisions 2007 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:57:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/04/04/us-immigration-reform-who-benefits/#comment-11 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:16:56 +0000 http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/04/04/us-immigration-reform-who-benefits/#comment-11 [...] In their often desperate quest for work in the United States, illegal migrants have resorted to what the New York Times calls “a growing trade in bonafide documents.” The paper features the story of the two Violeta Blanco’s - one, a single mother on welfare in California, the other an illegal immigrant mother of  three  and former employee  of the Swift & Company meatpacking plant in Des Moines, Iowa. We commented on the wave of raids at a number of plants a few weeks ago. The second Ms. Blanco, Eloisa Nuñez Galeana, purchased Ms. Blanco’s social security card from a ‘door-to-door’ saleswoman back in 2003 and used it only for her application to Swift & Company.  In total, 148 illegal migrants were charged with identity theft following the Des Moines raid. [...] […] In their often desperate quest for work in the United States, illegal migrants have resorted to what the New York Times calls “a growing trade in bonafide documents.” The paper features the story of the two Violeta Blanco’s - one, a single mother on welfare in California, the other an illegal immigrant mother of  three  and former employee  of the Swift & Company meatpacking plant in Des Moines, Iowa. We commented on the wave of raids at a number of plants a few weeks ago. The second Ms. Blanco, Eloisa Nuñez Galeana, purchased Ms. Blanco’s social security card from a ‘door-to-door’ saleswoman back in 2003 and used it only for her application to Swift & Company.  In total, 148 illegal migrants were charged with identity theft following the Des Moines raid. […]

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