If I break into your house illegally does it mean you have to take care of my medical needs, give me a place to go to school, , eat my food, sleep in my bed, give me credit cards and financial help to send what I get to any destination outside the country? With the illegal immigration model, you couldn’t even ask me to leave your house.

U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), introduced legislation last Monday that would prevent the issuance of credit cards to those who cannot provide verifiable identification. Sophisticated drug smuggling, the human-trafficking racket, potential threats to national security, the facilitation of criminal and terrorist activity, as well as the added financial risk are possible without plugging the loophole.

The Photo Identification Security Act, would require banks and financial institutions to use "secure forms of identification," which does not include such currently accepted forms of I.D. as Mexico’s freely issued and easily forged matricula consular cards which, critics charge, is just a "laminated piece of paper."

Currently the Federal Reserve’s remittance program charges U.S. financial institutions 67 cents per item to transfer money from the United States to Mexican banks, ensuring a "highly competitive rate." About 27,000 transfers are made through the program each month, not all of them legal. Our own federal government is making it easier for not only undocumented workers, but also for drug runners, human traffickers, and even terrorists to move money around and across borders.

Programs like Bank of America’s credit card plan and the federals’ Directo a Mexico also could aid terrorists, if it hasn’t already. As Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) has said, "After Sept. 11, we were told that money was the lifeblood of terrorists, and that we should do everything to block their access to financial resources."

If we just enforce our laws and stop catering t issuing credit cards to illegal aliens, they wouldn’t be encouraged to hop the fence.