[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10799]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MATRICULA CONSULAR CARD

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, when Generalissimo Fox leaves office this year, 
the illegal Mexican citizens in America better hope they find someone 
who cares as much about them as he does. Since the Sly Fox cannot take 
care of his own people, he makes his problem our problem.
  He has encouraged their careers by sending them north to the United 
States so they can have a career; and when they had no ID in our 
foreign land, his answer: the matricula consular card, a Mexican ID 
card for illegals in the United States.
  Then this Fox of Mexico started creating a vast network of American 
businesses and banks that will accept these cards so his illegals can 
open up a U.S. bank account and wire money home. That is right, back to 
Mexico.
  Ironically, even Mexican banks do not accept this matricula card. But 
U.S. banks do. And they help illegal immigrants send home. More than 
$12 billion every year. Money that the United States Government ought 
to consider charging a 10 percent fee on. Keep some of that money in 
America.
  Mr. Speaker, be that as it may, the banks and businesses that do this 
are doing nothing more than encouraging illegal entry into the United 
States.
  The Mexican Government may be controlling the United States 
immigration policy. In fact, since they are issuing IDs for people in 
our country from their country and making sure it is accepted, it is 
just like American Express. ``The matricula card is everywhere you want 
to be, without that yearly fee.''
  That's just the way it is.

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