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Companies with an bookkeeper/accountant/payroll office can't pay off the books.
If an employer gets audited by the IRS he could go to prison for tax evasion and failure to withhold.
It's easy to tell which posters have never had to make payroll.

Still laughing?

You assume too much - I've seen just that done. I've also seen the employees use fake ssn # and claim exempt. Or they work a small number of hours under a fake ssn, and the rest "off the books." No one ever gets prosecuted now, why do you think it will happen later?

It's worse, toohttp://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_1_55/ai_96403710>

'U.S. Social Security May Reach to Mexico," blared a Washington Post headline last month: A U.S.-Mexico agreement would send hundreds of millions of dollars in Social Security benefits annually to roughly 37,000 Mexican workers. But this and other news reports actually dramatically underestimated the true scope of the accord. If top officials at the State Department and the Social Security Administration have their way, up to $345 billion could be siphoned from the Social Security "trust fund" over the next two decades -- mostly to people who worked in the U.S. illegally.

The media reports quoted a relatively low cost because the Mexico pact is supposedly modeled after deals the U.S. already has with 20 other countries, mostly in Europe, known as Totalization Agreements. "Totalization" is government-speak for combining the taxes paid into America's and a foreign country's respective social-security systems -- thus allowing people who split their careers between two countries to get a harmonized retirement benefit from the two governments. But the Mexico accord is different in one key respect: It makes illegals from Mexico eligible for Social Security benefits, which will make the cost skyrocket.

Today, people who worked in the U.S. illegally can receive Social Security benefits for that period only if they become citizens or permanent legal residents. The new agreement would lift this requirement for Mexican illegals. Though not denying that this is the case, an SSA press officer cautions that "discussions are still in the preliminary stages." But according to an internal SSA memo obtained by NR, illegal aliens who never become legalized would be covered under the pact: "Mexican nationals working illegally in the U.S. can currently become entitled to benefits . . . [The deal] would include this population." Government sources confirm that the pact will, in fact, allow illegal aliens to qualify for Social Security without first obtaining legal residence in the U.S.

You are ignoring that people get away with hiring illegals without documentation NOW - what incentive will there be to not hire them later, especially when they are easier to control and more exploitable than their legal brethren? The market for illegal labor will not dissapear - in fact it will grow.