Orlando Business Journal
The war of words over Bank of America Corp.'s program that could result in credit cards for illegal aliens is heating up.
The congresswoman representing Charlotte, N.C., is joining the fight to shut down her hometown bank's efforts to give credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers. U.S. Rep. Sue Myrick, a seven-term Republican congresswoman and former mayor of Charlotte, is co-sponsoring legislation that would kill the controversial credit card offer and she also is pulling her banking business from BofA (NYSE: BAC), one of her biggest political donors.
Posted by tyne at March 20, 2007