As if this wasn’t a big enough problem, Americans are now (and probably have been) selling their IDs to Illegal Immigrants for a few bucks. Well, for these people, when they are asked how much they value their life, they can say “one-hundred dollars”.

Asked by a federal judge why she sold her birth certificate, Rosie Medellin said she needed a few bucks and did not really think it through. Bobby Joe Flores said he sold his ID documents to buy drugs. Margarita Moya and her son did it to raise money for medicine for a loved one.

Their documents were destined for illegal immigrants.

In all, seven defendants pleaded guilty in Corpus Christi this past week to charges of selling their birth certificates and Social Security cards for $100 each. Seven other defendants pleaded guilty to buying or reselling those documents as part of a ring that sold documents to illegal immigrants seeking jobs in Dodge City, Kan.[more]

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