In 2020 U.S. Customs Border Protection (CBP) seized 14,504 fraudulent identification documents (fake identification documents), including licenses, holographic stickers, stamps, social security cards, passports, visas and other types of identification. More than 97 percent of all fraudulent documents seized at the Port of Cincinnati (Cincinnati) originated in China and Hong Kong.
In the year 2020 of the unprecedented Chinese Communist virus pandemic, the search for counterfeit identification by national security units has never stopped, and CBP officials and experts working to maintain U.S. border and domestic security have found that holographic stickers, laminates (stencils) and stamps are often shipped to the United States along with blank cards, indicating the intentional creation of fake credit cards and identification documents and their sale on the black market for shipment across the United States.
Cincinnati Port Director Richard Gillespie (Richard Gillespie) said forged IDs can provide minors with legal alcohol consumption is dangerous; forged documents can be used for identity theft, public interest fraud and human trafficking, and terrorists also use fake IDs to evade travel inspection measures, among other things.
CBP officials are coordinating with the agency’s Fraudulent Document Analysis Section, Homeland Security Investigations and other federal partners to combat illegal activity, and CBP hopes the public will raise awareness of the dangers associated with fraudulent documents and human trafficking by supporting the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) “WearBlueDay” event to be held on the 11th of this month.
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