Now that Pamela called me out, I guess I gotta respond.
First off, I lived in Mexico 8 years...5 of those as an illegal alien, and all of them living with the families of some of the good folks who come here to work their butt off and chase their dream. Boy I don't want to stir the pot about the immigration situation in general (probably too late) but I will say that the situation we have now isn't working and putting 11 million people on 250,000 buses isn't a solution --that's a complex mess that will never be solved by idiots that can't see past the next election --from either party. (Okay, so I guess I did want to stir the pot.)
Good bad or indifferent, illegal aliens have been denied CA drivers' licenses.
A Mexican passport is valid ID ONLY when stamped by US INS
A Mexican "Matricula" (an ID card issued to Mexican nationals by their consulates here in the US) is specifically left off the list of valid ID's.
This is not to say they don't have a right to a notarization... but our notary laws do make it pretty tough to ID them. The notary laws would seem to put purposeful road blocks.
On the citizenship issue... you're right, not our job to prove or disprove that. However, from practical experience, any time someone hands you a Matricula Consular, their residency status isn't much of a mystery. It's not proof positive they don't have legal status, but it's a 95% good hint.
I know of at least one case in Real Estate where the file was sent back because of a bad ID... I think by the lender before it got to sign off, but I could be wrong.
P.S. Whoever put the wife on the loan in the first place was a bozo. |
