Posted by
Onelifetolose on Friday, July 21, 2006 7:40:11 PM
While all sides of the illegal immigration debate posture and propose serious solutions, there is one major guarantee that no serious action will take place. Until action is taken on this item, we can remain comfortably assured to no real action is imminent (or even contemplated.) What is this guarantee of government inaction? Stolen and other fraudulent Social Security numbers.
Our federal government knows where millions of illegals are working. It is being reported to them continuously. The government knows which employers account for the vast majority of the bogus withholding transactions.
Now, imagine for a moment if most of the criminals on the FBI's Most Wanted List were to send a letter to the FBI every two weeks with their real return address on the envelope. If the FBI were to get those letters, file them away in a database, and do absolutely nothing else, you might come to the conclusion that they were not serious about capturing the criminals. This is almost exactly what is happening with illegals.
Millions of illegals steal legitimate SSNs or simply make up one. Employers do not have the resources to validate the legitimacy of all of the numbers, but the federal government cannot possibly miss the fact the bogus numbers are used. When the government records Social Security payments and 5 people are using the same number (one guys in Chicago, IL and 4 chicken processors in Arkansas), they are forced to sort the payments and do their best to record the payments correctly for the American citizen in Chicago. The money paid by the 4 chicken processors in Arkansas is free money to the government.
Whether a politician is conservative or liberal, ignore anything he promises to do about illegal immigration until he suggests handling all of the known cases of SSN fraud in the system. Nothing is going to happen as long as no action is being taken to handle the people who tell the government, "I'm illegal and I am right here!" every two weeks.