Speech #960209568

The bill incorporates the recommendations of the Federal Advisory Committee on False Identification which carefully studied the false identity problem and concluded in 1976 that: The criminal use of false identification is a multibillion dollar national problem.... The exploding use of false identification must be stopped. False identification is relied upon by the large drug rings which account for an estimated 80 percent of the narcotics entering the country. by perpetrators of check. credit card. and securities frauds. by individuals engaging in various frauds against the Government. by escaped prisoners and fugitives from justice. by illegal immigrants. and by common criminals committing offenses ranging from confidence games to burglary. This bill would add two new sections to chapter 47 of title 18 United States Code. Proposed section 1028(a) would prohibit the use or supply of identification or documentation known either to be false or to evidence the birth. identity. or entry into the United States of a person other than the person intended to be documented thereby for the purpose of obtaining any official document or paper of the United States.