who would want to be injured at work and not have medical expenses paid for?
the company should not have hired him to begin with.
Exactly.
The quickest way to cut back on hiring of illegal aliens is to simply disallow deduction of wages paid to employees without a valid SSN and proof of residency. You want to hire illegals? Go for it - you’re using after-tax dollars, though...
I agree. But once having hired him, I do believe that they owed him at least his workman’s comp.