DURHAM, NC -- Durham's city council is getting an earful over a controversial plan to allow Mexican immigrants to use a special Mexican ID card for Mexican citizens living outside Mexico.
If approved, Durham would be the first city in the country to accept the Matricula Consular. It's an identification card issued by the Government of Mexico through its consulate offices to Mexican citizens residing outside of Mexico regardless of their emigration status.
According to an opinion from the Durham City Attorney, "the official purpose of the card is to demonstrate that the holder is a Mexican citizen living outside of Mexico. It includes an official Government of Mexico issued ID number and bears a photograph and address of the Mexican National to whom it is issued."
If Durham approves the resolution, city officials and police officers would accept it as a legal form of ID and banks could also accept it for financial transactions.
Click here to read the resolution (.pdf)
Some see the plan as an endorsement of undocumented workers, while others say it will save time and taxpayer money.
Mexican advocacy groups like El Centro Hispano in Durham are pushing for the idea. But since word of the plan went public, city council members have found their mailboxes stuffed with messages from people who hate the proposal.
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3 comments:
Those cards won't be easy to counterfeit. The high security Mexican Government issued cards will be proof positive to any American that it's real.
O guess I'd better explain that this is sarcasm.
11:39
I was thinking the same thing. Not to mention how reliable the Mexican government is.
We the people can enforce what the government won't ! If we don't hire or use business's that hire illegals they will leave!
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