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Article: Digital Identification Cards Gain Popularity at New York's Mexican Consulate.
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- June 23, 2002
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By Richard Newman, The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 23--At the Mexican Consulate on East 39th Street in Manhattan, the lines of immigrants applying for passports are always long.
"It's like this every day," the press attach, Mariana Diaz, said to a couple of visitors as she escorted them through the crowded lobby one day this month.
What's different lately, she said, is that the line at the consulate's so-called "matricula consular" counter, once comparatively short, has gotten longer. The consular identification cards are granted to immigrants who typically don't have Social Security numbers or other ...