The only requirement to receive the matricula consular document is Mexican citizenship. No criminal background checks are run. Local law enforcement have turned it into a sort of protection badge.

House lawmakers have given tentative approval to a measure that would ban government, police and schools in North Carolina from accepting Matricula Consular documents – or any other type of consular ...

another Wreck Hall event at Downtown SanTana's Proof Bar on May 15th. Promoter Jorge Garcia, who organized the show under the banner, dropped out of working with the establishment before then–Sunday ...

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Texas has for seven years said it won’t accept Mexican identification cards when issuing birth certificates for children of people in the United States illegally. But it ...

The Salinas Police Department is looking for help identifying a man they say cashed a stolen check using a fake Mexico Matricula Consular card.A Matricula Consular card is an identification card ...

Jeffrey Kaye looks at how the wide acceptance of identification cards issued by Mexican consulates has blurred the line between legal and illegal immigrants in the United States. The consulate ...

The state House has passed a bill to let Mexican nationals living in Washington use an ID card issued by the Mexican consulate as their official identification. Supporters of the bill say allowing use ...

The matricula consular, an identification card the Mexican government has given expatriates for more than a century, has recently become highly sought after, with lines of applicants wrapping around ...

Arizona Republican lawmakers should be tripping over each other to back a legislative proposal that would let the state recognize the foreign-issued ID known as a matrícula consular. Republicans have ...

Practicality won out at the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors this week when it reaffirmed foreign consulate identification cards as valid ID for county services and programs. The policy, adopted 18 ...