These companies should be banned from future government contracts.
While I think companies that knowingly hire illegals ought to suffer, it’s ridiculous for people to jump on the “get the company bandwagon”. IF they have SSNs and their cards and IDs appear to be in order, it is not UP to you and me as company employees when hiring to be held responsible for someone ELSE holding FORGED documents. Congress, and people around the country need to get off this trip of “blaming companies” outright. Let’s FIX the forms, and identification procedures, and make States stop giving legal drivers license to illegal aliens FIRST, THEN when we fix that, go after companies who are behaving illegally. (Unless you personally can say every document isn’t a forgery, then you need to hire people if they appear legit.)
In all fairness, even if the employer submitted the I-9 forms, whoever runs the checks takes awhile to do so.
The upshot is that I’m at least glad the bases are paying attention to who’s there!