Bank of whose America?

I do most of my banking online, the down side of that is that when someone who is still living in the 20th century gives me a paper check, I have to cash it at a brick-and-mortar bank. Luckily that doesn’t happen often. But I got my tax money back Thursday from local government which is still mailing checks to people. Yesterday, I gave my wife my ID and signed the back of the check and she went to cash it at the bank on which the check was drawn while I was at work. When I got home, she told me that they wouldn’t cash it unless I was there, too, so off we went. They turned us away at the drive-up window and said we needed to come back when the bank is open.

At this point I was getting pretty angry. I don’t like being treated as if I’m guilty before a crime has even been committed.

So we went there first thing this morning, presented the check to the teller. He asked if we had an account there, I responded that we didn’t, but that the check was drawn on his bank. He then made us put our THUMBPRINTs on the check! I’d given him two government issued IDs, with signatures that matched the endorsement – but we had to put our thumbprints on the check. So you can imagine how I was beginning to seethe at this point, given my previous statement about being treated like I’m guilty of something. But in the interest of getting my check cashed, I kept my mouth shut – until I had my cash in my hands.

The teller then asked me if there was anything else he could do for me. I replied “I’ve never, in my life, been treated as if I’m a criminal like I have since I tried to get this check cashed at your bank – a thumbprint, for pete’s sake?” He responded that it was bank policy, I said “You treat me like this with government-issued ID, yet you’ll open an account and issue credit cards to an illegal alien who doesn’t have any ID. Which America are talking about when call this the Bank of America?”

Of course, the teller’s mouth dropped open, then snapped shut, speechless. Every customer’s head turned and watched me walk out of the bank.

Of course, what I said was absolutely true, Michele Malkin has written about it, there’s even a Boycott Bank of America website. I just find it idiotic to force legal residents with legal US government identification jump through hoops while illegals without identification gets all of the perks we used to enjoy before they invaded.

I’m not a xenophobe, heck, I’m married to a legal resident alien, I don’t oppose legal immigration, but the illegal immigrants are influencing the treatment of legal residents.

Build the wall – yesterday!

Category: Illegal Immigrants, Society