If you need an id card fake in LA, you can go to MacArthur Park where characters are sold by fraudsters who work directly. Experts usually clear the ring, but they can’t block IDs made by exchanges.

With Michelle Norris:

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Undocumented outsiders crossing the border into the United States face enormous difficulties and need to find a scannable fake ID that will allow them to work and travel. In California, as in other states, illegal immigrants can’t get a driver’s license, so many people go for forgery. NPR’s Luke Burbank has the story.

Luke Burbank reports:

Would you say how much would you spend to have an original personality? In Los Angeles, the ongoing cost is about $100.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE #1: Indeed, that man is walking towards us right now.

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BURBANK: It was a decent Monday night, and NPR engineer Carlos Encincio and I were cruising all over MacArthur Park, west of downtown Los Angeles. If there is a real chance that an area will be more than 100% immigrant, then this area will be . Not unintentionally, it is also a breeding ground for illegal report exchanges. Best fake IDs, federal retirement assistant cards, unfamiliar crew cards, student IDs from any college you need can be found here. Our task is to figure out how simple these things are, and it only takes a moment for people to start moving towards the vehicle.

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Burbank: Almost every corner was a little party, baseball hoods pulled down and their eyes surreptitiously darting around. If their eyes meet you briefly, they will show you movements like the letter C. This tells you they are selling mica or id card fakes. We were moved multiple times during our 20 minutes of walking around the recreation area.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE #2: Like going to a photo studio.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE #3: Yes. Fundamentally, really 60 minutes, really an hour of photos, yes. One hour processing. You have…

BURBANK: No surprise for the official Henry Corrubias.

HENRY COVERUBIAS (Los Angeles official): The area I’m showing you right now is Seventh and Alverado.

BURBANK: Coverubias sits in front of a computer screen at Bulwark Police Base Camp. He was assigned to the counterfeiting office. Through a set of cameras around MacArthur Park, he was watching two men trade money in front of McDonald’s. One of them is to buy a fake id.

BURBANK: Someone else here will take the request and give it to the assembly plant. So we’ll stay here and look at these people who might be working on illegal mica creations. You’re looking at them, but will you confirm or deny that you’ll catch them now?

OFFICIAL COVERUBIAS: I don’t have a perfect person at the moment. I want to capture them here more than myself.

BURBANK: The manufacturing unit consists of Coverubias and his accomplices, two policemen. He said that to solve this problem, 25 people should actually do it. By cooperating, they may keep shutting down a falsely reporting industrial facility.

OFFICIAL COVERUBIAS: But when we kill, another one will appear. The benefits they bring do not include some major drawbacks.

BURBANK: Counterfeiters can get into the scannable fake id business for around $1,000. All they need is a PC, a laminator and Adobe programming. Coverubias owner Lieutenant Matthew Saint-Pierre said the IDs were convincing.

Matthew Road PIERRE (Police Lieutenant): We had guys come out of jail with them, show their ID and show up with them. We have murder suspects who use them to move out.

BURBANK: Police say a new, riskier component has been added to the id card fake exchange in recent years. box. At MacArthur Park, the Knights of Madness and the 18th Road Team incentivize individuals to get $1,500 a week to stay in traffic just to choose to work there. A long time ago, a few people with typewriters stood in the back of a van, which has grown into a multi-million dollar crime.

OFFICIAL COVERUBIAS: On second thought, a lot has changed here. I know, it’s more than I get.

BURBANK: Better to believe it, it’s a bit baffling every now and then.

OFFICIAL COVERUBIAS: You know, yes, but I’m not going to let it affect me. It’s my profession to make decisions, and that’s how things work.

BURBANK: Instead of a raise, however, Coverubias and his cohorts asked the LAPD to send more officers to crack the best fake id ring, a job he said was like saving the ocean with a teaspoon.