In June 2007, the Mexican Embassy set up a table at NOVA and issued passports and identification cards to its citizens already in this country.
It was quite a process — they conducted background checks and apparently issued passports and Mexican identification cards on the spot to those citizens that qualified.
There was no mention of how many people did not qualify and for what reasons. It has taken months to get a response from Congressman Frank Wolf and the State Department on how this is possible. It
took four months for Congressman Wolf to get this 19-word statement from the INS: “It is within the rights of the embassy to issue Mexican documents to nationals living in the United States.”
This is not a direct answer to the question and no mention of Mexican citizens illegally living in the U.S. It took approximately eight months, and four letters, with the last letter to the Inspector General of the State Department to get an answer.
The State Department answer was: “Mexico, and any other country, which are parties to the 1964 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations can issue passports and travel documents to its nationals already in another country.
The U.S. government has no authority regarding the Mexican government issuance of passports to its citizens.” Bottom line — Mexico or any other signatory can issue a passport to its citizens regardless if those individuals are illegally in this country. Draw your own conclusions, but mine is that my government really is not concerned about illegal aliens coming into this country, and therefore, not really concerned about illegal alien impacts to local communities.
JOE ANGSTEN
Manassas
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