Yeah, the American will be asked if he will accept a slaves wages sans benefits to fill a certain job. Of course no American will take it and it will be filled with an "illegal immigrant-cum-guest worker".
Actually what I was talking about is an "undocumented immigrant" who has a good paying career job.
A small percentage (but a large number of employees, like nine million) of W-2 earnings data reported to the IRS / SSA each year contain SSNs - names that do not match the SSA's Master Earnings File.
Most W-2s are from employers in the agriculture, hotel and restaurant, and low-skill service industries.
I think that it's reasonable to believe that some of these bogus SSNs are being used by people holding well-paying, responsible jobs. Those are the ones I was asking about.
Both the SSA and the IRS send "no match" letters to employers that have ten or more bogus SSNs. In 2003 about 130,000 employers received the "no match" letters.
Apparently SSA has no authority but the IRS does. Nevertheless, the immigrant "rights" industry, et al. go ballistic and, I believe, very little is done about it.
BTW, the SSA does everything it can to make a match. These are definitely almost all bogus SSN - name combinations.
My point being, that it is quite possible that the "guest worker" plan is defective from the get-go and all the more reason not to have a shiny new law that will be ignored -- just like all the other immigration laws -- by business and government owing to their economic and politcal needs.