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  Bank credit card aimed at illegal immigrants
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Last EditedRP  Feb 22, 2007 03:43pm
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News DateTuesday, February 13, 2007 03:50:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionBank of America Corp. has begun offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, typically illegal immigrants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

In recent years, banks across the country have been offering checking accounts and even mortgages to the nation’s fast-growing ranks of undocumented immigrants, most of whom are Hispanic, the paper said, adding these immigrants generally have not been able to get major credit cards.
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