So why doesn't our govt make it mandatory to verify SS#'s. >>>>>>>>>
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1037329/posts (snip)
Most importantly, no business in America will have an excuse for hiring illegals.
Right now , the job of trying to figure out if the ID shown by a new employee is a counterfeit or not is just daunting. That is sometimes a legitimate excuse and sometimes a smokescreen for why so many businesses have illegal aliens working for them. But with the new system, businesses merely use existing documents (social security cards and alien identification cards) and existing databases (SSA and BCIS databases) to verify employment eligibility. An employer using the system simply calls an 800 number, provides the name and the Social Security number or the alien ID number, as presented by the new hire, and then he receives either a confirmation indicating that the worker is authorized to work in the US or a tentative non-confirmation if the number and name provided do not match SSA or BCIS data. In the case of a tentative non-confirmation, the new hire has the right to contact SSA or BCIS and try to fix the problem BEFORE the employer may fire the new hire.
But the program is voluntary. The rotten, exploitative, unpatriotic businesses will still tend to keep hire illegal aliens or just not participate in the verification system.
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So far as I've heard this program is still only *voluntary*...........have you heard otherwise ??
I spoke to our human resources guy. He said that all they are required to do by law is check that the name and the SS# match. Nothing further. According to him even if the IRS gets income to the same SS# from different parts of the country they don't do anything about it. HR can't even legally ask if they the person is here legally.
Note: There is a Puerto Rican guy here. One day another hispanic from South America asked him what the $242 garnish of wages was for on his check. The PR guy asked him if he had children since most of the time it's for child support. The SA guy said, "M - f'er!!! That SOB". Apparently he bought the SS# from someone and now he has to pay that guy's child support. He can't do anything about it.