46 year-old Guatemalan National Maria Hernandez Nunez is in prison tonight after she was charged with immigration offences because she impersonated a Belizean to apply for a social security card.
Nunez, who claims to have been living in Belize for 17 years, went to the Social Security Board on last week Friday to try to apply for a social security card under the name of Juanita Campos.
The problem is that one of the employees of SSB knew the real Juanita Campos, and as a result, Immigration authorities were called in, who detained Nunez.
They realized that she was in possession of Campos' birth certificate, and as a result, she was charged with using a document she was not entitled to use.
She was arraigned today before Magistrate Adolph Lucas, where she pleaded guilty to the charge. She was also deemed to be a prohibited immigrant, and as a result, she was fined $3,000 dollars which she had to pay forthwith, or spend 2 years in prison in default.
She wasn't able to pay the money, so she was taken to Prison this evening. After she pays the money, or spends the time, she will be deported from Belize.
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