Illegal aliens get past TSA, jet off to Hawaii with forged ID

When we have an Intelligence community in DC that is unable to connect the dots, this doesn't shock us at all. This is so wrong on so many levels.

If you are a white male or female traveling on a one-way ticket with proper identification, your chances of being singled out for further screening is quite high. Now we learn if you an illegal alien and have forged ID under an assumed name you have no trouble boarding a flight. When are we going to stop this politically correctness and not be afraid to target groups for further checking?

We are beginning to buy into that we should all have to have passports to travel using a Government issued ID but how long until they start forging those.

Remember coming back from San Diego on a one-way ticket after 9-11 and being screened over and over again. Even had a Government ID but still singled out as I was on a one-way ticket. Didn't feel bad after seeing three Marines traveling on a one way ticket along with two women who had just cleared customs going through the same screening. Looked through all our bags, went through additional screening at the checkpoint, and more at the gate which almost made us late for our plane. Finally in AZ where we had to change planes, Southwest said no more checks -- we had enough.

My favorite that day was an older woman in a wheel chair that belonged to the airport. Security screeners (could barely speak English) had her get out of the chair so they could check everything to see if she had put anything in the hollow parts of the chair. It was the airport's own wheelchair. Yet three Middle Eastern, turbin wearing, men speaking a foreign language zipped right through security and boarded the plane next to ours without being stopped once. All I could think of was buy a round trip ticket, and you are home free.

Looks like not much has changed as you can now get through screening on forged ID's under assumed names.

This article sure doesn't make us feel safer!

Illegal aliens get past TSA, jet off to Hawaii with forged ID
Hawaii Free Press
January 9, 2010
Andrew Walden

Thousands of airline passengers on domestic US flights are using forged IDs to get past TSA screeners and board commercial flights under assumed names.

Just days after the al-Qaeda Panty Bomber tried to blow NW Flight 253 out of the sky, evidence leading to acquittals in a Honolulu illegal alien smuggling case has exposed the US Transportation Safety Administration’s repeated failure to spot phony IDs. All of Honolulu illegals were Mexican—but they got past TSA screeners as they flew to Hawaii from California on regularly scheduled domestic commercial flights.

Oahu farm managers David Kato and Glen Kelley McCaig faced a ten-day jury trial in the Federal Courtroom of Judge David Ezra. The charges stem from a July 20, 2008 immigration raid on a Waipahu, Oahu apartment house.

Federal prosecutors told the jury nearly 100 illegals were able to get past TSA screeners using “micas”-- falsified identification cards obtained from Southern California forged-document mills. And the forgeries weren’t very good. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin December 31 reports:

The backs of the cards contained numerous spelling and typographical errors.

The errors include "Deparment," "Departament," "Adminstration," "identifield," "punishible," "ins't," "Homel and Security" and "United State of America."

The front of one card said it was newly issued by the Department of Homeland Security while the back of the card said it had been issued by the Department of Justice.

And not a single card presented as evidence in the trial had a hologram on its face like a real permanent resident card.

Defense lawyers argued that Kato and McCaig could not be expected to spot the forgeries if the TSA did not. And a Honolulu Federal jury apparently agreed, coming back with a December 30 not guilty verdict on all 17 counts.

The Waipahu raid is not an isolated incident. Many farm workers on the Big Island are reputed to be illegals recruited from California. Anonymous leaflets have occasionally circulated in Kona demanding deportations. In a 1997 Star Bulletin interview, a labor contractor in Kona describes how he entered the US illegally at Miami after evading Pinochet’s forces in Chile. He received a Green Card in the 1986 amnesty. To recruit workers he places ads in California newspapers offering round-trip airfare and other incentives to prospective coffee pickers and speaks of having “a lot of brotherhood for people who will take the risk to work hard." A farmers’ spokesperson asks: “Who else will harvest the coffee?” Thirteen years later the same system is still at work supplying labor to Big Island farms.

The Hawaii Carpenters Union has complained about contractors hiring illegal aliens on Honolulu construction sites while union members sit at home unemployed. In 2008 sixty-two were arrested—including Mexicans, Brazilians, and one European--in two separate raids on one Maui construction site. On one Honolulu jobsite 17 illegals were arrested in December, 2007.

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