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"CAIR" <CAIR@caircolorado.net> wrote in message
news:drq23vgcvkb4arc0qb4k9jrfjavnd6t6pq@4ax.com...
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> C A I R
> Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform
> www.cairco.org
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> NEWS RELEASE
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> State law to prohibit foreign IDs
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> CAIR urges state legislators to support Government Identity Documents
> Act
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> Lakewood, CO (January 21, 2003) -- Associates of the Colorado Alliance
> for Immigration Reform (CAIR) will be in attendance at a 2:15pm press
> conference today called by Rep. Don Lee and Sen. John Andrews in the
> third-floor press room of the state capitol building. The Republican
> state legislators will announce their sponsorship of a bill that would
> make illegal the accepting of the Mexican matricula consular ID card
> and other "unsecured" IDs.
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> Called the Secure and Verifiable Identity Document Act, the bill would
> prohibit a public entity or public official from accepting
> identification documents not "issued by a state or federal
> jurisdiction that is unverifiable by federal law enforcement,
> intelligence or Homeland Security agencies." Exemptions to the
> prohibition would be crime reports or where federal law mandated
> acceptance of such a document.
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> CAIR is calling on all state legislators to support the bill. Fred
> Elbel, CAIR co-director, said, "In a post-September-11 reality,
> accepting anything less than secure, verifiable IDs is flirting with
> disaster." CAIR spokesman, Mike McGarry, said the Mexican martricula
> consular ID card is a "sham card issued on the strength of false,
> dubious and unverified documents by agents of a corrupt foreign
> government."
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> Last December CAIR filed a 13-page formal complaint with the U.S.
> Attorney's office against Mayor Wellington E. Webb and the City and
> County of Denver for officially accepting the matricula card as valid
> ID. On January 8, 2003, CAIR co-sponsored a debate in Denver on the
> matricula card, The Mexican matricula consular ID Card: Safe or
> Sorry?.
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> * The Lakewood-based Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform (CAIR)
> is a Colorado non-profit corporation which advocates for reducing
> immigration to sustainable levels.
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> www.CAIRCO.org
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Damn, fire!  Progress on the hoof!  What a deal!
There are definitely a couple of loop holes, but the slack is slowly but
surely coming out.
This is going to be kind of like watching an avalanche start from the toss
of a single snowball.
--
Hanged in effigy at Brazoria for wanting peace with Mexico, these "Tories"
were: Ira Lewis (1800-1867), Thomas Jefferson Chambers (1802-1865) and
Samuel May Williams (1795-1858).