There is a way to double check the SSN and name to make sure they match, and you can check other immigration documents against other fed info.
It's a federal database, now optional for employers (I forget the name offhand). It shouldn't be.
How hard could it be to check and see if the name matches the social security number being provided by a prospective employee? Both CIS and the SSA have programs.
Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program
oh, folks. where to start. ok, i've been in this immigration biz for almost 14 years and about to get out of it because I just can't take the illegal alien crap anymore. Folks, the illegals are getting forged documents. There are ways around the "laws" to petition the USCIS for an employment authorization card. Illegals can come across the border and marry an American citizen and boom! they have work authorization just because they married a USC! It still doesn't address the issue that they entered the US illegally. How do you fix this problem? Reform the immigration laws that make it so that if an illegal marries a USC, that does not give them the right to claim permanent resident status (green card). Also, there should be a devise that can be designed to scan the employment authorization cards, permanent resident cards and drivers licenses for authenticity and the DOL needs to change their labor laws to allow for such a thing because under the current I-9 laws, an employer cannot ask for any one type of employment document to be submitted for employment verification and they cannot legally verify the document.
The temporary worker cards that Bush is talking about is another word for amnesty. It didn't work under Reagan -
it's not going to work now. And I know that there are a lot of homeless people who would work these jobs that "American's don't want", especially if we gave them free room and board like we're doing for the lazy bums from N.O. who don't want to work and want to continue sucking our welfare system dry and live off of Federal money (FEMA).
The next question is how to find the illegals. How about this? Make it a mandatory law that every immigration lawyer has to provide every name of all of their clients who entered the US illegally and that the reporting does not need to be disclosed to the client. I'm telling you - I see people from Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Colombia, et. al. walking through our northern and southern borders undetected and illegal. But because they want to become legal, they seek out immigration attorneys; so, to get the illegals, you not only have to go after all the employers and heavily fine them - I mean to the point it is going to really hurt, but you have to go to the attorneys as well. Some of you may say that this is a violation of civil rights/attorney/client privalege. My take - if you're illegal in this country. You have no rights to any of our protections. They should go through a mass hearing where hundreds are before an immigration judge. No holding facility. The person is arrested, (s)he goes before an immigration judge right then and there. The only question that should be asked - "Did you enter this country illegally?" If the answer is yes - box 'em up and ship 'em out. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.00.
And as far as the cost goes? Well, Vicente Fox should give us a barrel of oil a day for every illegal alien that wanders across our border to compensate the American people for their time and trouble. In addition, sanction Mexico if Fox continues to hand out his handy-dandy brochures on how to immigrate illegally into this country. We are spending millions of dollars in maintaining these people, chasing them, imprisoning them. Spend the $15 million, round them up (give business incentives for turning illegals in), get them out of here, build our wall along the borders and let's get our country back.
That's only the tip of the iceburg that I would do to these people who infiltrate our borders, have not desire to become "assimilated" (God, it sounds like we are Borgs), they don't learn the language, they are destroying our culture. They are stealing, trespassing, murdering, raping. 23% of our inmates are illegals. I have no sympathy for them.
Sorry for the long post. this subject just makes my butt itch! :-)