If a Social Security # is fake, the SS administration sends the employer a letter saying so.
Employers who are ‘duped’ by fake numbers, choose to do so.
It took 2 months for my back ground check for my CCW permit how is the federal government going to do a 24 hour back ground check on the illegals when you have to contact their home countries to get much of the info you need? That provision is a JOKE.
Most illegals are using other people’s real SS#s, not fake ones. This is how it came to pass, a few years back, that my then 80 year old father, who is a retired Foreign Service officer living in the Washington DC area, got a notice from the IRS for failing to report and pay taxes on a portion of his income. A restaurant in Brooklyn had dutifully filed the usual information with the IRS, re how much they had paid to a certain busboy who was using my father’s SS#.
Unfortunately, putting a stop to this (and a lot of other problems involving criminal activity by both illegals and citizens/legal residents) will require a massive federal biometric database. Until there’s a reliable way to determine exactly who a person standing in front of you IS, there is no way to verify anything else about them — citizenship/residency status, past felony convictions, current arrest warrant, etc. This is how criminals who have gotten fired and even convicted for abusing helpless patients in one nursing home easily get jobs in another one. They just use the name and other info of another real former employee at their previous employer or some other employer. They can even get a good reference this way.