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This morning on my local Telemundo station there was a report about undocumented workers buying false documents in California. Specifically in one case the social security number of a toddler was used and her credit was already in shambles because of it.

It is stories such as these that have prompted a crackdown on false documents in immigrant centers. Just a few weeks ago there was a huge raid not to far from where I live, on Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights, Queens. In that raid many were arrested for selling and buying false ids and other documents. But some claim that not everyone arrested was involved in false documents. And while the raid has upped the level of fear, it hasn’t stopped the false documents business in the area.

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