An illegal leaves an obvious trail of clues: drives, but no license, works, but the employer can't verify citizenship, has no bank account, prepaid mobile phone with no fixed address, etc.
How do you know if a person driving a car who is not exhibiting criminal behavior is an illegal alien who doesn't have a drivers license? Or are we randomly stopping people and asking for papers? Your response is stoopid (sic).
BTW, last I heard, employers who ask for citizenship papers as proof, are subject to law suits.
And heck, because I'm a nice guy,
Yeah, you're mister nice guy aren't you.
You have it backward. Employers are REQUIRED to ask for proof an employee is legally eligable to work. The potential employee can choose to provide a passport or other legal documentation, but the employer MUST ask, and must get it before employing someone.
As for how you know someone is driving without a license, they also likely have no registration, no insurance, etc. All those can be checked based on the tags, home address, etc.
But the bottom line is, for PIs who are used to tracking down hidden assets and willful trickery, finding illegal aliens would be like shooting fish in a barrel. $1000 per head reward, and these guys would do five before breakfast.
But noooooo, YOU would rather the government tagged and track us all.
"How do you know if a person driving a car who is not exhibiting criminal behavior is an illegal alien who doesn't have a drivers license?"
No, he's right, that could be done. Most of us are blissfully unaware of how much information there is in the public domain. Detectives and bill collectors are not.
The problem I see with it is that some people who shouldn't be doing it would want to: boneheads, bullies, etc.
But that's where the bond comes in. None of them would have enough money to keep posting those bonds over and over again, so the bad apples would weed themselves out (to mix metaphors).