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Frozen Sooner
2/21/2007, 04:37 PM
It's not true.

At least according to a guy I just spoke with at Bank of America Card Services, they are offering accounts to foreign nationals who have established ITINs, NOT undocumented workers.

Big difference there.
crawfish
2/21/2007, 04:39 PM
Yeah, right.

Bank of "America Haters", more like it.
SoonerStormchaser
2/21/2007, 04:47 PM
The problem is that ITIN's are easily forged, making it pretty damn easy for illegals to get the CC's.
Widescreen
2/21/2007, 05:07 PM
Are they easier to forge than other types of identification that could be used to open a credit account?
mdklatt
2/21/2007, 05:08 PM
It's not true.



You mean the hundreds of media outlets who were regurgitating the exact same original story without giving it a second thought were all wrong? Shocking!!
Frozen Sooner
2/21/2007, 05:17 PM
The problem is that ITIN's are easily forged, making it pretty damn easy for illegals to get the CC's.

They're being made to provide a valid green card.

It's not BofA's problem if INS's documents are easy to forge.
jeremy885
2/21/2007, 07:57 PM
NPR seems to have done their research and it sounds like BOA may have had a change of heart after the story broke the national news.

The audio report gives the most detail.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7388709&ft=1&f=1001