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Last year someone who had used my SSN died. Since then my military retirement, my military disability, my health insurance and homeowners insurance were all cancelled because of my "death". It's still not straightened out after almost nine months. Fortunately it doesn't appear that the person ever applied for any credit cards or loans. I had no idea that they were using my SSN until the problems started popping up.
The guy swore and got upset. He bought a SS# from someone and is now paying that person's child support. He has to work two days a week extra just to break even.
The author is too young and naive today but someday this will come back to haunt her.
I hope.
This whole extended family sounds like a criminal enterprise. Round them up, ship the illegals back, strip the legals of their green card or citizenship for conspiracy against The United States and ship them back as well.
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Here's one you can laugh & cry about.
Yes. The place would simlpy fall apart without her.
The corollary to the 'jobs American's won't do' myth.
The real problem here is that crooks can get your SSN from other things besides Bank Statements and Social Security Checks. Apparently, a lot of other companies generate your account numbers using your SSN. If anyone knows the formulas, then anyone can steal SSNs from utility bills.
Moral of the story- Shred or burn anything that has even a chance of having snesitive data on it.
BTW, some group of folks got busted a few weeks back for stealing SSNs by decoding APS Bills in Arizona, for those of you enjoying the Grand Canyon State in my company.
Damn she's bold when demanding that the USA fix its system so illegal aliens can make more money. I must just be a stupid ol' white male using outdated logic when I thought it was up to the country of origin to be up to snuff economically.
This author is actually very lucky. I've read of a situation where someone's SSN was used for several jobs that the thief didn't have taxes withheld from. So, come April 15 of every year, the poor guy whose SSN was used has to pay taxes on income he never earned!
Yes, this is just another problem that arises with Bush's appeasement policy. I'm sure we will encounter many more that we haven't thought of yet. I spent last night scraping my 'W' stickers off of my car and donating money to the Minutemen because I'm so mad at what Bush said yesterday at his meeting with his best friend, Fox!
Hmm. Never thought about this before. The feds are no help if someone is using your SSN, so they must not care.
Wonder if I can auction it off on EBay?
raise the visibility of Ethnic Media as a major information source for California's 17 million(**) Ethnic American residents and the changing American landscape;
How's that for obtuse?
Venturing a guess, I'd believe we're all "ethnic." Their discernment given this article seems to be whether one is a "resident" or a "citizen." (**) Census quickfacts gives the 2003 California population a 35,484,453 estimate. The "American" part is just thrown in there like so much camouflage. I just loves divisive "diversity."
One Reporter's Opinion--Abuse of the 14th Amendment
Best argument yet - from a ninety-plus guy...
Bush Decries "Vigilantes," For Reasonable Immigration Policy(W Calls Minutemen "Vigilantes")
Conservatives Split in Debate on Curbing Illegal Immigration
The immigration debate pits one core GOP constituency (law-and-order conservatives) against another (business interests that rely on immigrant labor). One camp wants to tighten borders and deport people who are here illegally; the other seeks to bring illegal workers out of the shadows and acknowledge their growing economic importance.
Mexico accused of abusing its illegals
Mr. Kyl said Mr. Fox's "pre-emptive threats" to file lawsuits on behalf of those crossing the border unlawfully "is hardly helpful, since it presumes that illegal aliens have more of a right to break American law than American citizens have to peacefully assist authorities in enforcing it." "Since when are 'Neighborhood Watch' citizens 'vigilantes'?" Mr. Tancredo asked. "President Fox thinks we should tear down the fence that keeps illegal aliens out? Then why doesn't he put up a welcome sign on his southern border with Guatemala instead of using his military to keep poor Guatemalans out? Such hypocrisy about borders defies historic parallel."
Immigration Reform Drive Set for April
Illegal immigration is the No. 1 threat to our national security, allowing attacks from foreign sources and eroding the underpinnings of American society. It is a crime of gradual, exponential damage. Each illegal that steps over our border is just one more straw on the proverbial camel's back. Slowly, the influx of illegals has grown to unmanageable levels, depleting our economic resources, destroying institutions and straining our society to the point of breaking. Yet Congress has failed to act to secure our borders, enforce our laws and protect our sovereignty...a grass-roots citizens' lobbying movement is taking on legislators...hundreds of talk show listeners are converging on the nation's capital from April 23-28 for "Hold Their Feet to the Fire – A National Drive for Immigration Reform." These citizen lobbyists are paying their own way to Washington to lobby for immigration reform...Illegal immigration has reached devastating proportions. Our children are paying the price in impacted schools. Overcome by millions of dollars in unpaid medical bills, hospitals and emergency rooms across the country are closing. Tuberculosis, virtually eradicated in the United States by 1983, is again on the rise as people carrying the disease bypass the health requirements of legal immigration. Annually, illegals cost Arizona taxpayers $1.3 billion and California taxpayers a whopping $10.5 billion. And these numbers are escalating rapidly, while states like California buckle under the financial strain...Leaders in Washington have forgotten that immigrating to the United States is a privilege, not a right. Their obligation is to the citizens of the United States, not illegal aliens.
Trafficking modern-day slavery
What a sad indigtment on our society that this relabled sin is still pervasive.
WESTCHESTER PERV-ALIEN ROUNDUP
A team of ICE agents swept through Yonkers, White Plains, New Rochelle, Mount Kisco and Peekskill arresting the sex fiends, including 19 as they reported to probation officers for offenses including rape, sodomy, sexual abuse and assault. Silly me, thinking that the problem's solved by just cutting off their...
NJ: Feds arrest members of violent MS-13 Gang
After running out of spray paint I decided to move to a less invaded area. After a black neighbor stood up for them and threatened me with violence for their sake I saw the graffitti on the wall.
Latin American and Caribbean emigrants sent to their countries $45.8 billion in 2004
Before you know it we're talking about real money - gone forever.
Bush to push for more lenient immigration laws
92 responses when the FROBLs show up.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1369039/posts
...the tunnel is not unlike the 15 others found during the 1990s, built by drug cartels. But everything in the world after Sept. 11, 2001, has taken on a different hue. Today tunnels like this one are where the failures of drug policy, border control and immigration reform meet ever-pressing issues of national security.
Mexican State Issues 'How To' on Border Jumping
The state of Yucatan has issued a new 87-page handbook that tells people how to get across the U.S. border illegally. The guide, which has an accompanying DVD, contains a section on how to apply for a lawful visa but the remaining 50-plus pages are filled with instructions about how to safely sneak into the United States, then blend in.
Bush Unveils New North American Pact
...relations are strained by the Bush administration's anger over a high Mexican tax on soft drinks made with high fructose corn syrup. Whussup widdat? If anything screams Communism it's the replacement of sugar with crappy fructose syrup. I'm still screaming about how the ruined Jolt!
Fox Astray on Immigration(I say it's time for Mexico to take off the American "training wheels!")
"No country that is proud of itself should build walls ... it doesn't make any sense," Fox said. As a Mexican-American born on this side of the Rio Grande, it makes sense to me. A country has the right to protect its borders...My beef with right-wing elements in Congress is that they tend to be hard on illegal immigrants but soft on those who hire them.
A Debate That Cannot Be Ignored (Is immigration good for NC?)
Good SC FReepers site the real obstacles to reform (corruption, lobbyists, etc)
Letter to Presidents Bush and Fox Demanding Immigration Reform
This letter suggests logical action on: Family Reunification, Earned Access to Legalization, Border Safety and Protection, Enhanced Temporary Worker Program, Civil Liberties, and Immigrant Student Adjustment.
Mr. Fox's elephant at the summit
Human flesh has become Mexico's No. 1 export. Mr. Fox wants an open border to enable desperate Mexicans, eager to pursue the dream of a better life and who have given up on their native land, to disappear into America. This is pretty much how it is already, but Mr. Fox wants to erase it officially. Mr. Bush, who is fluent in the bordello Spanish popular in Texas, must be ready when he meets Mr. Fox and Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada to tell the Mexican president — politely, of course — where to get off. The subject of dumping Mexicans on the American doorstep to relieve pressure on the Mexican government is not on the agenda of the continental summit, but it's always on Vicente Fox's mind. Immigration will be the elephant in Laura's parlor.
Irate judge throws book at smuggler; 7 1/2 -year prison term stuns immigration aide
Seething over what he saw as a lackluster acknowledgment of a serious crime, a judge sentenced a former federal immigration inspector yesterday to 7 1/2 years in prison for smuggling at least 100 illegal aliens past airport security checkpoints in Newark and Baltimore.
Insults from south of the border
Today, President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Mexican President Vicente Fox will meet in Crawford, Texas, for a summit that is not expected to deal with immigration. That is disappointing, especially since Mr. Fox in recent days downplayed the possibility that al Qaeda terrorists could cross into the United States from Mexico, ridiculed the San Diego border fence to curb illegal crossings and vowed to stamp out Arizona's Project Minuteman. Most troublesome was Mr. Fox's dismissal of worries about al Qaeda crossing the border.