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December 14, 2007
Havoc Wreaked by Illegal Alien Identity Theft
Illegal aliens may not pay taxes, but that's no problem for the government — so long as others pay the taxes on the aliens' behalf.
Jamey and Lora Costner of Newport, Tennessee owe $7,854 in federal income tax on 2005 wages paid to two illegal aliens who stole their identities. The government may even garnish the wages paid by their actual jobs. A delinquent tax bill for 2006 hasn't hit them yet, but probably will.
Lora also had trouble collecting workers compensation benefits, apparently because illegal alien Elizabeth Velasco Bautista had been collecting them on her behalf. Jamey almost lost his drivers license because of unpaid citations for speeding and driving without a license, offenses committed by Douglas Valdez, who had stolen his name.
Valdez was not charged with identity theft because a judge ruled that it's not a crime to steal someone's identity to obtain employment.
On a tip from baldeagle390.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 14, 2007 3:08 PM
Comments
Crap like this really chafes my crotch.
It just goes to prove: Illegal aliens are thieves in every way. When they can’t steal tax payer funded services such as healthcare and education – they steal identity. Their liberal-backed excuse: “It made my life easier.”
“F*ck the lives I screwed up and make harder; I must be stealing from conservatives or they wouldn’t have the money for me to steal to begin with. And the only reason I’m stealing it is they OWE it to me!”
When conservatism is gone – so is even modest wealth. Then we can all be equally miserable: Just like Al and Hillary say it MUST be for human survival.
Posted by: Jimbo at December 14, 2007 9:46 PM
"a judge ruled that it's not a crime to steal someone's identity to obtain employment". Someone put this judge's identy out there for the criminals to use and we'll see if the thinks it's a crime then. Where did we get enough idiots to fill the benches across the country. Talk about failed school systems.
Posted by: Scrapiron at December 14, 2007 9:52 PM
Seeing the words "identity theft" and "Internal Revenue Service" in the same sentence loosens my bowels.
Posted by: Jim - PRS at December 15, 2007 1:43 AM
More legislation to deweaponise the subjects of the EUSSR (English Regions)-
Ban on "Cheap Imitation Samurai Swords
Nice commentary here from Simon Clark.
We'll soon need a licence for a butter knife.
Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at December 15, 2007 2:28 AM
holy crappe!
if we'd known this while paying child support for the last eighteen years on two children - think of the money we could have saved!
this suckx. it's getting too easy to become a criminal in this country. and, what jim-prs said.
Posted by: nanc at December 15, 2007 4:47 AM
"a judge ruled that it was not a crime to use someone’s identity to obtain employment".
What the hell?
And that judge's name would be?
Posted by: fellowes at December 15, 2007 9:22 AM
This cowardly judge must have gone to the same "law" school as the judges who have been turning loose child molesters in the recent past.
Posted by: Toa at December 16, 2007 9:56 AM
If Valdez was charged with identity theft in Tennessee, then a strict interpretation of the applicable law would indicate that the judge made the right decision:
(b) A person commits the offense of identity theft who knowingly obtains, possesses, buys, or uses, the personal identifying information of another:
(1) With the intent to commit any unlawful act including, but not limited to, obtaining or attempting to obtain credit, goods, services or medical information in the name of such other person...
The law specifically requires the intent to commit an unlawful act - and employment in and of itself is not unlawful.
So the failure here is with the TN legislature who, through inadvertence or intent, created a loophole in the law that lets illegal aliens stealing identity in order to work to get a free pass...at the expense of TN citizens.
Posted by: Elisa at December 16, 2007 10:39 AM

