![]() If their gaze meets yours for even a moment, they'll flash you a hand sign like the letter C. Our mission is to find out how easy it is to come by the stuff and it only takes a few minutes before people start approaching the car.īURBANK: On just about every corner are small clusters of men, their baseball caps pulled down low, their eyes darting back and forth furtively. Fake driver's licenses, social security cards, resident alien cards, student IDs from any college you want, it's all available here. By no coincidence, it's also a hot-bed for the illegal document trade. If it were statistically possible for a neighborhood to be more than 100 percent immigrant, this area would be. UNIDENTIFIED MALES (Speaking foreign language)īURBANK: It's a gorgeous Monday afternoon and NPR engineer, Carlos Encincio(ph) and I are driving around McArthur Park, just west of downtown L.A. UNIDENTIFIED MALE #1: Well, the guy's coming up to us right now. How much would you pay to have a completely new identity? In Los Angeles, the going rate is around 100 bucks. In California, as in many states, illegal immigrants can't get a driver's license so many turn to forgers. face a big challenge, finding some form of identification that allows them to work and travel. Illegal immigrants who've made it past the border and into the U.S. ![]() From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. ![]()
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