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........“Senator McCain, can I ask you a
question about the Senate immigration bill? Under the bill, how many passports
can someone forge before it becomes a crime?”
McCain said, “You’re going to have to ask our folks that,
I don't think that we stand for any forgeries." CNSNews.com followed-up, “Can you tell me why
that would be part of the bill in the first place?” McCain answered, “I cannot tell you that it
is part of the bill."
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.”
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