Did u know Identity thieves are not a priority why did illegal get off free stealing SS# of 5 year old?

[nann]

And now Obama will grant her citizenship, who says illegals who Identity thieves , crime does not pay ?Please no complains it's too long. BROOKFIELD — Thousands of illegal immigrants are living in southeast Wisconsin. Some of them are stealing other people’s identities to get jobs. A FOX6 investigation exposes a bustling black market for fake IDs that could put your family at risk.

Imagine learning that your five-year-old has a full time job! That’s what a Milwaukee mom discovered when she applied for state benefits. The truth is, her little girl is a victim of identity theft.

Rebecca Morales found out about her daughter’s phantom work history when she tried to apply for government benefits last year. A state worker told her that Esperanza (who was seven) and Jacqueline (who was five) both had credit histories that showed substantial income.

“When I found out I told her, ‘Where’s my rent money?’” Morales now jokes. “And she looked at me and said, ‘Huh? What mom?’”

But it was no laughing matter. Brookfield police traced the identity theft to a Best Western hotel, where they found a maid using Jacqueline’s name and social security number.

“They don’t imagine how much they’re hurting somebody when they’re doing that,” Morales says. “I mean, for all I know, how do I know she didn’t take out a house in my kid’s name?”

The maid’s real name is Maria Espino-Lopez. Like an estimated 11 million others, she is living in the United States illegally. In a Waukesha County courtroom last fall, her lawyer explained that Maria had escaped severe poverty in Mexico.

“She grew up living in homes with dirt floors, no windows or doors, no running water and no bed,” said Elizabeth Murrar, Espino-Lopez’s defense attorney.

It’s not clear how she got little Jacqueline’s information, but last June, a Waukesha County prosecutor charged her with felony identity theft. The charge was later reduced to a misdemeanor in a plea agreement. Her attorney says that leaves an avenue open for her to pursue future citizenship.

“I only came to find a better life and a better education for my son,” Espino-Lopez told the court through an interpreter.

But it’s what happened next that raises important questions about the state of illegal immigration in America.

“What she needs to do is leave and go back to whatever country she came from,” says Ira Mehlman, media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR. FAIR advocates for the deportation of all illegal immigrants, regardless of the circumstances. He blames the federal government for failing to enforce immigration laws.

“When they fail to enforce the law, they are creating victims,” Mehlman says. “They may not know precisely who those victims are, but as in the case of the five-year-old girl, there is a real victim and unfortunately there are many people just like her.”

Christine Neumann-Ortiz, disagrees.

“I think the enforcement-only approach is a failure,” she says.

She is director of Milwaukee’s Voces de la Frontera, which leads an annual immigration march through the city. She says that violent criminals should be removed, but that cracking down on those who are simply trying to make a living drives them further underground.http://fox6now.com/2012/02/15/illegal-immigrant-caught-using-5-year-olds-identity-for-work/

What they are saying illegals who steal citizens personal information, should not be arrested or sought.

[fitche]

Why didn't the Employer check the ID properly? If you pull up SS# info it should tell you the age, well you are wrong it does NOT disclose the age. Why do you think illegals steal children's id's ? You think this is the first it's ever happened ? Activists condone using fake or stolen documents, activists support this woman right to , still drive a car without a valid license and no insurance. Activists do not want the laws enforced, they do not want illegals held accountability, they want illegals to do whatever they must and forget this, our nation of laws applies to illegals, better life supersedes, American laws every time. No need to be nation of laws.Soon we will be just like Mexico, where everything is wink and a nod.Illegals want to turn America into the very country they left and the sooner, the better

[troyes]

she used it didnt say she stole it.

And your missing the bigger picture that no one cared she was illegal when they were exploiting her for labor untill it became inconvenient
America has used illegal labor for years and now we want to change the rules thats the moral issue here

[toryn34]

Why didn't the Employer check the ID properly? If you pull up SS# info it should tell you the age. So if a full grown lady is standing there in front of you but her back ground check say she is 5 years old why would you hire her?

I actually know why. Because the lady standing in front of you is willing to work cheap with no benefits (which I agree she might not deserve since she is here illegally). But this is not entirely the fault of the ID thieves. If we here do not hire them, they will go back. And when they go back, they will go back and tell their fellow Mexicans that it is hard to get jobs then they will not come.

So as long as we are hiring them, stopping them from coming over is next to impossible. It's like battling the war on drugs by arresting drug dealer at the street level. It should be part of the solution but you still left the supplier and the user behind. The user will simply go to another street level dealer.

To answer your question, yes we should arrest the illegal for stealing but if we deport her you realize she is going to come back again right? Probably to the same hotel manager who turned the other way on the fake documents and hired her the first time.