Letter: Banks not above immigration laws

Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006 | 8:01 a.m.

Why does Nevada State Bank, along with other members of the Nevada banking community, require photo identification from anyone doing business with their institutions? To provide security for the bank and protection for depositors?

What guarantee is offered through photo cards against persons using an unproven name, address and any other information as prepared by a foreign consulate - as noted by Bill Martin in Wednesday's Las Vegas Sun?

Now the banking community has joined big business in continuing to ignore established laws and plunder the overabundance of cheap labor. With its financial stranglehold over bureaucratic politics, it's refusing to follow federal laws restricting payments to, or from, persons not proven to be legal residents of this country.

Cash may indeed move the world, but the fight is on!

Meeting in town halls in rural Nevada, Minnesota and the Appalachians, voters countrywide are showing their determination to shut off access and use of "Yanque" dollars by immigrants not proven to be legal residents. Growing disenchantment with dysfunctional federal law enforcement is fomenting realignments of Congress and pushing citizens to seek solutions through state and local ballots.

Richard E. Law, Las Vegas