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Supreme Court to Address Illegal Immigrant Identity Theft

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments

When I.C.E. arrests illegal immigrants, charges of identity theft usually follow. Often, the immigrants have bought fake social security numbers and identification, and sometimes those identities belong to real people. Under a 2004 law, this crime carries federal charges and a prison term of up to two years.
But many illegal immigrants say they did not [...]

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