Mexican Consulate mobile office visits DeKalb

DeKALB - About 100 Mexican nationals sat in the pews of the Wesleyan Church waiting to get a "matricula consular." The mobile office of the Mexican Consulate in Chicago made its second stop to DeKalb on Friday. Officials expected to issue 400 identification cards and could provide up to 100 passports and 25 Mexican military IDs each of the two days it was set up at Wesleyan/Nueva Vida Church at 1115 W. Taylor St. This is the second year the office has visited DeKalb. The matricula, a Mexican ID card, is available to Mexican people to provide them with verifiable identification, regardless of immigration status. The consulate started its mobile office about five years ago and issues an average of 500 cards each day, Mexican Consul Julio Huer