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Illegal immigrants, using Social Security numbers that are fake, stolen or belong to dead people, have been paid tax dollars to build N.C. roads. An Observer investigation, involving a small sample of road contractors' 2005 payroll records, found questionable Social Security numbers for one-third of 85 workers. Illegal workers on N.C. projects might seem self-evident in a state with a booming illegal immigrant population and a growing economy that craves a steady flow of construction workers. But the Observer's findings come amid growing frustration with the flawed immigration system. Federal law doesn't require employers to verify workers' immigration status or...

A year ago, this organization warned that the Bush Administration was planning to do something unthinkable - they were seriously considering signing a pact with Mexico that would give any Mexican who had worked in the U.S., including illegal aliens, full U.S. Social Security benefits, paid out of your Social Security Trust Fund! It seemed so far fetched, we had trouble convincing the Congress that it could happen. A White House spokesman denied our claim that it was on a fast track, stating the ongoing discussions for Totalization were just informal and preliminary. But we knew better. We had obtained...