Thought this was interesting.....

[Mastevt]

Got this in an e-mail, thought I'd share, and get some responses. I didn't research all the links, so how true it is, is up to you. I know figures can easily be transcrewed to make a point, but, take it for what its worth, words on the internet.


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A conversation between a Customer and Bank of America Bank:[/align]



The Bank: Bank of America, can I help you?
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Customer: Yes, I want to cancel my account. I don't want to do business with you any longer.
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The Bank: Why?
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Customer: You're giving credit to illegal immigrants and I don't think it's right. I'm taking my business elsewhere.
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The Bank: Well, Mr. Customer, we don't want to see you do that, but we can't stop you. I'll help you close the account. What is your account number?
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Customer: (gives account number)
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The Bank: For security purposes and for your protection, can you please give me the last four digits of your social security number?
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Customer: No?
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The Bank: Mr. Customer, I need to verify your information, but in order to help you, I'll need verification of who you are.
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Customer: Why should I give you my social security number? The reason I'm closing my account is that your bank is issuing credit cards to illegal immigrants who don't have social security numbers. You are targeting that audience and want their business. Let's say I'm an illegal immigrant and you've given me a credit card. I have a question about it and call for assistance. You wouldn't be asking me for a Social Security number, would you?
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The Bank: No sir, I wouldn't.
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Customer: Why not?
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The Bank: Because you would have pressed '2' to speak in Spanish. We don't ask for that information when calling in on the Spanish line.
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[/align][/align]I provided "snopes" for doubters:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/bankofamerica.asp


Now!!!!!!
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I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of the following facts.
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1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year. http://tinyurl.com/zob77 2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
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3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

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4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html 5.[/b] $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.[/b]http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html[/b]6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.[/u]http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.[/u]http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html 9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages arecaused by the illegal aliens.[/u]http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html 10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US [/u]http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html 11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report:[/u]http://tinyurl.com/t9sht12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."[/u]http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.[/u]http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ".[/u]http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
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[/align][/align]The total cost is a whooping .
$ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR[/u]
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[hillbillyhunter1]

A bank is a business and can give credit to a mongolian goat herder if they want.

Doesn't really have anything to do with citizenship.

Having a Social Security Number does not always make a person a citizen anyway.

Banks not using "socials" for credit reference are probably using"itins" (individual taxpayer identification numbers---numbers like"socials" that "illegals" can use to legally file their tax returns and perhaps gain credit and also start down the road to citizenship, if they so choose) and may even be helping "illegals" obtain them through the correct bureaucratic process. As long as the Bank is the one taking the risk (not ALWAYS the case, I guess), there's no problem, imo.

[burniegoeasily]

Very interesting.