NEW YORK — The controversy over Bank of America's offering undocumented migrants Visa cards has spilled into the pages of one of the nation's major papers.

Kenneth Lewis, CEO of Bank of America, has written a piece in the Wall Street Journal that defended his bank's offering Visa cards to undocumented migrants.

In the Feb. 22 issue, Lewis wrote that the intent of the program was to help Bank of America customers build credit history and not to serve every customer who was legally eligible for service would not be fair.

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