BofA offers illegal aliens credit cards.

I'm sorry if I seem a bit 'confused' about this. I remember back in the day when my brother-in-law (a major drug dealer)told me there was a place on his tax forms for illegal money??????? OMG! The world has totally become 'The Twighlight Zone'.

I would like to see the banking industry address these jerks in AZ about illegal immigrants........ hmmmmmmm A quote from BofA director........ “These people are coming here for quality of life, and they deserve somebody to give them a chance to achieve that quality of life,” says Brian Tuite, the bank’s director of Latin America card operations and one of the architects of the program. (WHAT DID HE JUST SAY???) omg HE SAID “These people are coming here for quality of life, and they deserve somebody to give them a chance to achieve that quality of life,” and yet AZ has got a profiling law in the works???????? OMG!!!

Bank of America targets Illegals for credit cards video

Illegals to get credit cards pilot program BofA

Bank Defends Credit Cards for Illegal Immigrants
by Scott Horsley

February 13, 2007 In Los Angeles, immigrants who don't have credentials to work in the United States can still get a credit card, thanks to a pilot program run by Bank of America. The bank is hoping to tap a fast-growing market by offering credit cards to illegal immigrants without Social Security numbers.

Bank of America is testing the new credit-card program at about 50 Los Angeles branches. Applicants don't need a Social Security number or a traditional credit check to qualify. But they do need to have a Bank of America checking account with no recent history of bounced checks.

Critics are condemning the program, saying the bank is knowingly marketing credit cards to illegal immigrants.

Under the pilot program, cardholders typically put up a deposit to guarantee payment of their credit card bills. They also pay a relatively high interest rate — in some cases, more than 21 percent.

Bank of illegal aliens in America

EXCERPT:
Bank of America defends the program, saying it complies with U.S. banking and antiterrorism laws. Company executives say that the initiative isn’t about politics, but rather about meeting the needs of an untapped group of potential customers.

“These people are coming here for quality of life, and they deserve somebody to give them a chance to achieve that quality of life,” says Brian Tuite, the bank’s director of Latin America card operations and one of the architects of the program.

wouldn’t give a penny to the March of Dimes or any other health charity that funds cruel animal experiments—but would your bank?

Unfortunately, Bank of America is a corporate donor to the March of Dimes, a charity that bankrolls scientifically useless experiments on primates, cats, dogs, rabbits, sheep, and other animals.

PETA has informed Bank of America about the cruel, irrelevant experiments funded by the March of Dimes, but to date, Bank of America refuses to designate that its donations be used only for non-animal research.

After multiple letters, phone calls, and pleas for a meeting garnered little more than empty rhetoric from the bank, PETA pulled its accounts from Bank of America and switched to a new bank. We’ve asked other animal protection organizations to do the same, and already United Poultry Concerns has dumped Bank of America, and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is breaking its ties with Bank of America.

The animals are banking on you to do the same. Please, put your money where your mouth is. Take your money and … protest. Close your account at Bank of America and let bank officials know why.

March of Dimes-funded experimenters have spent millions of dollars forcing cocaine, alcohol, and nicotine on pregnant rats and newborn opossums, even though we have known for years that these substances can harm developing babies. The March of Dimes has also funded cruel experiments in which monkeys have been kept in restraints for days at a time and ferrets and other animals were given severe brain damage yet it has not funded a birth-defect registry, something that would give physicians and others real data from babies that could help save lives.

The charity spends nearly a million dollars a year on animal experiments, yet according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rates for many birth defects have gone up.

Although humans and animals both feel pain, fear, sadness, joy, love, and other emotions, physiologically there are vast differences between species. Data from one species cannot always be correctly applied to another. Drugs such as thalidomide, DES, and Accutane, for example, were thoroughly tested on animals and judged “safe,” yet many people who took these drugs died or unknowingly harmed their unborn children.

Instead of pouring resources into animal experiments, researchers could more effectively use these resources on programs that truly help save lives. Many similar charities, including Easter Seals, Birth Defect Research for Children, Child Health Foundation, and the Heimlich Foundation, put all their funds into programs that directly benefit babies and families and never spend a cent on cruel animal experiments.

Bank of America claims that it would be too difficult to earmark the donations, but other large corporations, such as Kmart, Publix supermarkets, and Sara Lee, have agreed to do so. In fact, Sara Lee not only designates that its corporate donations to the March of Dimes be used for non-animal testing, it also provided information about the health charity’s animal experiments to all 154,000 Sara Lee employees.

Please write to the CEO of Bank of America and suggest that the bank follow Sara Lee’s lead:
Kenneth D. Lewis, Chair, CEO, and President
Bank of America
NC1-007-56-01
100 N. Tryon St.
Charlotte, NC 28255


Please also join other caring activists at a demonstration at your local branch to pressure Bank of America to spend money more wisely.
To organize or join a demonstration at a Bank of America near you or for more information on how you can help stop the March of Dimes’ cruel experiments on animals, please visit http://www.marchofcrimes.com/wycd.html.

If you are a Bank of America employee, you are in an excellent position to influence the company’s policy on corporate donations. Please inform your employer in writing that you don’t support the company’s donations to cruel charities such as the March of Dimes.