Originally Posted by greatam
Oh, yes, the famous "Consular Matricula" cards.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2003/mar...mony61903.html
Another scam perpetrated by the Mexican government. There are so many of these cards floating around the US and being used to open bank accounts, buy cars and houses (with the help of Citibank, which offers 1% below prime to illegals) that I find it very difficult to believe that an illegal from a Latin American country would have ANY problems at all flying.
Obviously, this young man's passport was confiscated by INS. But why didn't the school just issue another photo ID? Feel good story, but rather suspect in foundation.
The Consular Matricula cards are no more of a scam than using passports to travel. I don't care as it's the Mexican government's business what they want to issue for ID or not. And the borders should be secured at the border instead of having a massive police state round-up in the rest of the country or at the airports. And
ID is not security at the airports either so let's ditch this government-issued photo ID nonsense for domestic flights. It's just another dog and pony show and far more suspect than even a suspect human interest story.