Sen. Bob Casey Doesn't Know How Many Passports Someone Can Forge Before It Is Crime

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Senator Bob Casey Doesn't Know How Many Passports Someone Can Forge Before It Is Crime

Birther Report
7/19/2013

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Senator Pat Leahy: Senate Immigration Bill Says Forging Two Passports Is Not A Crime

Birther Report
7/19/2013

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Leahy: Senate Immigration Bill Says Forging Two Passports Is Not a Crime
By Curtis Houck @ CNSNews

(CNSNews.com) - Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt) admitted Wednesday that under the Senate immigration bill, forging up to two passports is not a crime, adding that the bill leaves the decision whether to charge someone with passport fraud up to the discretion of prosecutors.

On Capitol Hill on Wednesday, CNSNews.com asked Leahy, "One of the provisions has to do with passports, that’s an important component. Do you know how many passports someone is able to forge before it’s a crime?”

Leahy said, "Well, it depends upon which interpretation is being used. You could have one form which is two, but then there are other criminal conduct that would be involved with that." [...] _ Continued at CNSNews.

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Senator McCain: I Don't Know How Many Passports We Let You Forge; Bill Text Here

Birther Report
7/19/2013

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McCain: I Don't Know How Many Passports We Let You Forge
Excerpts via Alissa Tabirian @ CNSNews

(CNSNews.com) – Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), a member of the “Gang of Eight” that helped write and pass the immigration reform bill in that chamber, said he did not know how many passports a person could forge under the proposed law before being charged with a crime. [...]

In the legislation that passed in the Senate, Section 1541 "Trafficking in Passports," it explains in detail that a person can be charged for a crime if they forge "3 or more passports," meaning that they potentially would not be charged if they falsely made only one or two passports. The criminal charges and penalties do not kick in until after "3 or more passports" are falsely made, issued, or transferred, etcetera.

As the legislation states, “any person who, during any period of 3 years or less, knowingly – (1) and without lawful authority produces, issues, or transfers 3 or more passports; (2) forges, counterfeits, alters, or falsely makes 3 or more passports; (3) secures, possesses, uses, receives, buys, sells, or distributes 3 or more passports, knowing the passports to be forged, counterfeited, altered, falsely made, stolen, procured by fraud, or produced or issued without lawful authority; or (4) completes, mails, prepares, presents, signs, or submits 3 or more applications for a United States passport, knowing the applications to contain any materially false statement or representation, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.” [...] _ Continued at CNSNews.

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Audio: Senator Rubio Didn't Know Own Bill Allows Someone To Forge Two Passports

Birther Report
7/20/2013

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Rubio Didn't Know His Own Immigration Bill Allows Someone to Forge 2 Passports Before It's a Crime
By Alissa Tabirian @ CNSNews

(CNSNews.com) -- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)--a Republican member of the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” who co-sponsored the Senate immigration bill and was one of 14 Republicans who ultimately voted for it--was unaware that his own bill allows a person to forge up to two passports without penalty. [...] Continued at CNSNews. Hat tip Julio.

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