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>> he says when you walk down 26th street they have people kind of flashing. >> davis is in pursuit of a counterfeit ring that sells fake green cards and driver's licenses to illegal immigrants. it's one of many local i.d. rings that altogether reap millions in profits. >> what they'll do is this is like the universal sign for they call them mica which is like license or i.d. >> he's got the help of mexican born informants both on the street and inside the jail, including this man, whom we'll call joachim. >> referee: he says what happens is you give them a picture, and

Anything and everything is safe. >> fake green cards, driver's licenses and social security cards, it's a market cornered by the gangs of little village. criminal intelligence unit investigator mike davis is on the trail of one i.d. ring in particular. as he gathers intel from a jailhouse informant, davis launches a sting operation with the cook county sheriff's vice squad that same week. they will use street informants in order to make contact with the i.d. ring. >> maybe we can do a loose tail on them. >> he said follow me. he's saying the same thing we're following me right now. okay. >> ri...

Okay. he says he's got all the information and he explained he's got a meet at a library at 12:00. he says everything happens in this library and it's the same process as what we experienced on 26th street. it's like gang activity. it's organized crime. and after this group gets brought down, you know what? there will be another group. >> the latin kings rake in tens of thousands of dollars every month from phony i.d. sales. and that money goes towards their guns and drugs. >> they say the west side is the number one in homicides, inglewood is probably number two, and over here is little villa...

Let's get this straight. a couple of states saying it's not illegal in our state or in our county, within the state, it's still a federal offense to distribute and use, to possess marijuana. there's no bank that's going to give a loan. are he they opening themselves up to so much-- >> there is he' too much liability. >> and barney frank for one, and probably violates four or five different federal laws so they're not going to do it. >> the point is that it's sad because people can benefit from medicinal marijuana-- . couldn't you have staging over at the pot and-- >> and cigarette, i'm complet...

Let's get this straight. a couple of states saying it's not illegal in our state or in our county, within the state, it's still a federal offense to distribute and use, to possess marijuana. there's no bank that's going to give a loan. are he they opening themselves up to so much-- >> there is he' too much liability. >> and barney frank for one, and probably violates four or five different federal laws so they're not going to do it. >> the point is that it's sad because people can benefit from medicinal marijuana-- . couldn't you have staging over at the pot and-- >> and cigarette, i'm complet...