Forged green cards and Social Security IDs are being openly sold on the streets of New York City to illegal immigrants on the black market, a report has found.
Criminals associated with MS-13 and other gangs spotted I sold forged documents in Queens this week. new york post report.
The newspaper said at least 10 men were “camping out in broad daylight on four corners along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens,” selling fake cards for between $80 and $250.
Roy Fenoff, an associate professor at the Citadel Criminal Justice Department in South Carolina, said the document gives immigrants access to almost everything citizens have.
“Once people get these counterfeit cards, they can work, they can travel, they can access many aspects and services within the United States,” he said. “There are people who are not here to get a job, but are getting these cards for other purposes, and this facilitates their criminal activities.”
Venezuelan migrants wait in line to obtain shelter entry documents at an immigration processing center in Denver, Colorado, May 9, 2023 (Helen H. Richardson/Media News Group/Denver Post, via Getty).
Although the Social Security card is fake, the number may belong to a real U.S. citizen.
“If you are using someone else’s social security number, you are committing a crime. [their] We don’t really know who this person is, so warrants could be issued to arrest innocent people,” Fenoff said.
Bruce Foucart, a former special agent in charge of investigations for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in New England, also said fake IDs could be used by someone with nefarious intentions.
With fake IDs, illegal immigrants could “load a truck with a bomb and drive it under the Holland Tunnel and cause a huge disaster,” Foucart warned.
“It’s easy for people who want to commit terrorist activities or pose a national security threat to build a second life in the United States,” he said.
“I can tell you right now, we’re just waiting for 9/11 to happen again.”
This was revealed by a police official. post The Roosevelt Street peddlers are said to be affiliated not only with MS-13 but also with the 18th Street gang.
“This is big business,” the official said.
Roosevelt Street is known to law enforcement as the “East Coast Capital” for fake identification. post Added.
“If they’re doing Social Security numbers; [sic] and no one says Well, next is weapons and passports,” said one local resident and a street shop employee. “Now everyone can do what they want.”
“People from other boroughs are coming here to get their ID cards. All the new immigrants are coming here,” said another resident.
Illegal aliens can even avoid criminal charges by providing false identities to law enforcement.
“If they’ve never been fingerprinted before, they could be arrested five, six, seven, eight times under a false name…and they’ll never have a record of themselves,” the ex said. said John Cutter, deputy chief of the NYPD’s intelligence division.
“If you use a fake ID, [a] So they become bolder and more willing to break the law and do potentially very serious things,” he added.
The brother of Jose Antonio Ybarra, an undocumented immigrant accused of killing 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley, has been charged with possessing a fake green card that he used to get a job at the University of Georgia. .
Jose Antonio Ybarra (Clark County Sheriff’s Office)
Diego Ybarra, 29, was taken into custody by the Clark County Sheriff’s Office after he was fired from his job as a dishwasher in one of the school cafeterias because he refused to provide additional identification, police said. Breitbart News report.
The newspaper said Diego “has ties to brutal Venezuelan gangs.” new york post.
