"I am trying to save a very close friend from the embarrassment of dealing in what are obviously fraudulent documents."

The women were arrested on charges of making and distributing fraudulent documents.

Those who produce fraudulent documents will be arrested and charged with a felony, he said.

But the department has not done enough, federal auditors say, to prevent people using fraudulent documents from getting passports.

But in a last, desperate chance to become legal residents, many farmworkers were using fraudulent documents to prove they worked here.

Such deception is made easy by the availability of fraudulent documents.

For now, immigration officials say they are aggressively pursuing cases involving fraudulent documents.

But he said: "Employer sanctions really don't function correctly unless you do something about fraudulent documents."

Someone showed you a fraudulent document, designed to discredit me.

"I will not let California driver's licenses be turned into fraudulent documents," he said.