It's already being done. The SSA's "no match" letters for both employers and employees identify mismatches between reported W-2 data and the SSA Master Earnings File. But, that "enormous undertaking" equals big bucks for lawyers, eh?
I don't understand businesses defending such uneconomical Latino labor. Build the damn fence, put troops on the Mexican border, whatever.
Why hire five-dollar-an-hour Hispanic migrant labor when Red China has 800 million peasant citizens many of whom would work here unlimited hours for a dollar an hour and a clean place to sleep on the premises.
I thought businessmen understood economics.
Need 50 million? 100 million? Chinese workers. Just ask.
Technical workers too! The Chi-coms have millions of them. Maybe ten dollars an hour tops -- all have perfect GPAs and perfect scores on the GRE. All ten feet tall just ask Silicon Valley tech firms.
You raise an excellent point: If there's a guest worker provision, what's to prevent those workers from being Chinese?
That is one reason to force a rise in the minimum wage....if a guest worker program is instituted, then make sure the company has to pay a higher minimum wage on those workers just like they would on American workers.
The bottom line is that the multi-national corps will continue to leave the US and simply import their products. Ford & GM both are closing plants and announcing new factories in other countries....almost in the same press release.
What is a CAPITALIST way of solving that problem?
"The SSA's "no match" letters for both employers and employees identify mismatches between reported W-2 data and the SSA Master Earnings File"
I don't know what the current rules are but it used to be a $50 penalty even for a misstyped SS# on a report. I closed my 55 year old construction co. in 1992 and a big part of the reason was I couldn't compete with the companies hiring illegals and wouldn't join their filth.
Their savings aren't just in what they pay in wages which in CA are currently $18-25/hr. cash with no deductions or comp insurance payments. A lot of them knowing that they are illegals make the deductions and pocket the money which further increases their profit.
In 92 when I shut down they were paying illegals $12-15/hr cash and my wages were costing me $23 plus $7.80 in fringe benefits which made it imposible to compete no matter what the rate of production or quality of work.