[engrpat]

If the court should rule that stealing and using someone else's SSN isn't ID theft then we better come up with something to takes its place real fast.

[Las Vegas Ron]

This question needs a court to decide?? Scary stuff.

[library user]

I thought this was Scrappleface at first.

[DoughtyOne]

What else would it be?

That social security number of mine is what the government recognizes me as. To them I am xxx.xx.xxxx. How could using that number not be stealing my identity?

I am quickly losing confidence in our justice system. This matter should be cut and dried, settled nearly a hundred years ago, or when the SS numbers first started being issued.

Chaos is what this is, pure and simple.

[subterfuge]

Ignorance isn’t a viable excuse when actual citizens break the law, so it shouldn’t be an excuse that an invader can use either.

[ConservativeMind]

This seems to be an analogue to this:

If agents found that an illegal who was caught in a sweep had murdered someone, they couldn’t try him on murder in addition to the immigration issue?

Why should the Court need to take this case? Of course other crimes can be tried. Americans are tried for other side issues all the time.

[ninergold3]

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether people picked up on immigration violations also can face charges of identity theft if they use Social Security and other identification numbers that belong to others.

Doesn't this seem like a "no-brainer" to the rest of y'all?

[kabar]

I guess if you are an American citizen, it is ID theft. But if you are an illegal alien, no problem. What’s so hard about this decision? The illegals like to claim they have rights in this country yet they squeal like pigs when the law is applied to them equally.

[ConorMacNessa]

"including many who were arrested in raids on meatpacking plants."

Oh no! Not meatpacking plants!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[rfp1234]

Duh, will they also decide whether or not liquid water is wet?

[SoConPubbie]

If the court should rule that stealing and using someone else's SSN isn't ID theft then we better come up with something to takes its place real fast.

If the court rules that ID Fraud by an Illegal Alien is OK, maybe it is time to push the "Reset" button A.K.A 2nd Amendment.

[ScottinVA]

No doubt the ruling will be 5-4 for or against, depending on whether Anthony Kennedy is having a bad hair day.

[The South Texan]

Ok. An American citizen can get someones SS number and commit fraud in that persons name, and they are almost certain to spend some time in a Federal Pen. But the SC has to determine if an illegal allien’s theft meets the same standard? The Founding Fathers are probably rolling in their grave for the one millionth time with our studpity.

[mockingbyrd]

How is it not? What else would it be?

[HarleyD]

Ignacio Carlos Flores-Figueroa, a Mexican national, worked ... under an assumed name, and false Social Security and alien registration numbers.

Perhaps he was getting tired of going by Julie Sinclair and didn't realize what he was doing was illegal. /s

[Blood of Tyrants]

“Defense lawyers have argued that their clients should not be charged with stealing someone else’s identity because the immigrants only were seeking documentation that would allow them to work. They didn’t know if the numbers were fictitious or belonged to someone else, their lawyers say.”

Okay, charge them with falsifying official documents, a felony.

[nufsed]

What part of "that belong to others" does someone not ubnderstand?

Lawyers have done more to harm this country than illegals, liberals, the Japanese and german Military, and the British army combined.

[According2RecentPollsAirIsGood]

C’mon, they’re just stealing the identities Americans won’t steal. I propose a guest identity thief program.

[skr]

... because the immigrants only were seeking documentation that would allow them to work. They didn’t know if the numbers were fictitious or belonged to someone else, their lawyers say.

Fraud is fraud, whether it's just the intended employer or the employer and the person to whom the SSN belongs or will belong.

[Zathras]

No one ever heard of “Equal protection under the law”?

[donna]

Haven’t all the elites already decided that it earns them citizenship?