Illegal Alien Criminals Altering Fingerprints To Avoid Detection.
It’s becoming more and more common, and it’s becoming more and more concerning. Known criminals are obliterating their fingerprints to make it impossible to identify them through normal law enforcement means.
Many of these criminals are illegal aliens, and they are traveling to the Dominican Republic to have the procedure performed. This is done by cutting and stitching the tops of fingers, as well as use of acid and other caustic materials which obliterate fingerprints. Yet, while the Dominican Republic is most the most known location, a federal court recently sentenced an Arizona plastic surgeon for replacing fingerprints with skin from the sole of the feet on a man involved in a drug ring.
Why do this? Through their destruction of their old fingerprints, they are then able to obtain a new identification, obtained illegally. This new identification allows them to live in full view while remaining in the shadows. Even more disturbing, it allows them to continue their prior criminal activities, and some of these activities included rape, theft and even murder.
This is an increasingly dangerous practice as it opens the door even wider for extremely dangerous criminals and terrorists to enter our borders.
