Black market fake identification documents are openly being sold to illegal migrants in Queens, NY, according to a report.
Criminals linked to MS-13 and 18th Street gangs were spotted selling fake green cards and social security cards for $80-$250.
“Once people have these fake cards, they can work, they can travel, they can access a lot of aspects and services in the United States,” Roy Fenoff, an associate professor at the Department of Criminal Justice at the Citadel said. “There are people getting these cards that are not here just to get a job, that they have other intentions, and this helps them carry out criminal activity.”
The documents provide illegal access to jobs, services, and travel. While social security numbers may belong to real citizens, their use could wrongly implicate innocents.
Experts warned the fake IDs could enable terrorists and serious crimes by illegal migrants operating under false identities.
“If I’m using a social security number that’s of another person, and then I’m committing crimes, and I’m using [their] name, you potentially have warrants out there for innocent people’s arrest, because you don’t really know who this person was,” Fenoff said.
Illegal migrants could “load up a truck with bombs … and bring it underneath the Holland Tunnel and create something major and disastrous,” former special agent Bruce Foucart said.
“For someone that wants to do terrorist activity or is a national security threat, it’s easy to establish this second life within the US,” he said.
“I guarantee right now, we’re just waiting for another 9/11.”
One resident said the area had become the epicenter for such documents, with concerns the trade could expand to weapons.
“If they’re doing social security number [sic] and nobody says s–t, next time it’ll be weapons and passports,” the resident said. “Everyone can do what they want now.”
“People from other boroughs are coming specifically to this area to get the IDs, all the new migrants are coming here,” another resident said.
“If they’ve never been fingerprinted before, under their fake name they can get arrested five, six, seven, eight times… and they themselves would never have a record,” said John Cutter, retired NYPD deputy chief of the Intelligence Division.
“With fake IDs, they become [a] ghost, so they become more emboldened and more willing to break the law and potentially do something that’s really serious,” he added.
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