Bernard Welch. the convicted murderer of Washington heart specialist Dr. Michael Halberstain. had more than 20 false identities which he apparently used in fencing stolen valuables. Kristina Bersten. a member of the BaaderMeinhof gang of terrorists in West Germany. used an altered Iranian passport to cross the Canadian border before she was caught in Vermont by Federal authorities. and then deported. The wellknown terrorist. Carlos "the Jackal." uses all varieties of false identification as he travels from country to country. Curbing the misuse of identification documents will have a substantial impact in other problem areas. such as illegal immigration. The attorney general of Illinois. Tyrone Fahner. recently said that spot checks during a 2week period showed that 45 percent of the aliens who applied for jobless benefits were illegal aliens who were not entitled to such benefits. Everyone of those illegal aliens had a counterfeit card that showed him to be in the United States legally. Mr. Fahner has estimated that unless the practice is stopped. illegal aliens in Illinois will be able to collect as much as $66.2 million each year in fraudulent unemployment benefits. Obviously. Federal legislation which would deter the production of these instrumental documents would lessen the burden of illegal immigration on the States.
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