For $800, illegal immigrant rents fake IDs in Arkansas
JON GAMBRELLAP
To his bosses at Pilgrim’s Pride, he was Juan Jose Rodriguez _ it said so on the birth certificate and Social Security card he presented when the southwestern Arkansas chicken plant hired him six years ago.
At his De Queen home, he was Joel Garibay-Urbina _ with a wife, three kids and a mortgage.
And to police officers responding to a domestic violence call, he was just the latest illegal immigrant to have two identities after an arrest.
"We’ve arrested them and they offer an Arkansas identification card and they give us a … work badge and it’s a different name," said De Queen police investigator Sean Martin. "There’s no real way to tell."
It turns out that for $800, Garibay-Urbina had rented the American dream.
Assuming the identity of a genuine American _ keeping the documents just long enough to convince Pilgrim’s Pride he was a U.S. citizen _ Garibay-Urbina, 28, of Guadalajara was able to get a job, buy a gun and live undetected until police arrested him after he fought with his wife in January.
After crossing the border at Laredo, Texas, with a six-month visitor visa in 1995, Garibay-Urbina is slated for deportation to his native Mexico after a one-year prison term. Had Garibay-Urbina not been accused of domestic battery, it’s unlikely police would have ever suspected a crime. Reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General say cases are rarely pursued...
To his bosses at Pilgrim’s Pride, he was Juan Jose Rodriguez _ it said so on the birth certificate and Social Security card he presented when the southwestern Arkansas chicken plant hired him six years ago.
At his De Queen home, he was Joel Garibay-Urbina _ with a wife, three kids and a mortgage.
And to police officers responding to a domestic violence call, he was just the latest illegal immigrant to have two identities after an arrest.
"We’ve arrested them and they offer an Arkansas identification card and they give us a … work badge and it’s a different name," said De Queen police investigator Sean Martin. "There’s no real way to tell."
It turns out that for $800, Garibay-Urbina had rented the American dream.
Assuming the identity of a genuine American _ keeping the documents just long enough to convince Pilgrim’s Pride he was a U.S. citizen _ Garibay-Urbina, 28, of Guadalajara was able to get a job, buy a gun and live undetected until police arrested him after he fought with his wife in January.
After crossing the border at Laredo, Texas, with a six-month visitor visa in 1995, Garibay-Urbina is slated for deportation to his native Mexico after a one-year prison term. Had Garibay-Urbina not been accused of domestic battery, it’s unlikely police would have ever suspected a crime. Reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General say cases are rarely pursued...
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