[raybbr]

I spoke with our HR guy. He says, by law, he can't ask if they are a citizen. He can only ask if the can legally work. Also, they can only match the SS# with the name. They don't verify id.

He also told me that if the same SS# is recorded as sending money into the IRS from different parts of the the country the IRS doesn't flag it or do anything about it. How is this proprosed legislation going to change that, if at all? This legislation is a smokescreen. A pretend job. That's all.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Yes folks, beefing up document security at this point is like closing the barn door long after the horse has gone that great pasture beyond, but continuing the current policy of issuing easily-copyable cards is like a Bush speech mentioning amnesty - one more impetus for the stampede. Every measure to impede it, no matter how small, is worth doing. Much, much more remains to be done about the rampant document fraud problem.

CAFTA and the FTAA will indeed spread the ruin non-wealthy citizens of Mexico and the Southern U.S. has suffered (I thought Reconstruction was over) to all participating countries. These agreements stifle the growth of small businesses (and local economies) while artificially suppressing wages for the benefit of the privileged. To paraphrase one wealthy guy, "Greed-driven policy doesn't stop at the Rio Grande". Free Trade agreements, like our illegal immigration problem, shifts the costs that employers should shoulder to the hapless citizens who don't benefit. That Dreier went out of his way to push a trade agreement that will be detrimental to his constituents illustrates how influential it's proponents are. Not good.

DennisW, in the future please refrain from using the terms "homosexual" and "deeply impacted" in the same short paragraph. Coffee burns my sinuses when I drink it and laugh at the same time. Thanks.