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As someone else has already pointed out, provisions of the Patriot Act require that financial institutions obtain "customer identification that includes name, date of birth, address and an identification number, which would be a taxpayer identification number for American citizens or a government-issued document for noncitizens" prior to allowing someone to open an account. They must also maintain records of any documents used to verify identification. Considering that BofA requires these individuals to have held a checking account for three months, claiming that they are targeting illegal immigrants seems like very sloppy journalism at best, and possibly even libel.