Immigration officials getting tough
After years of throwing up their hands at enforcing immigration laws while insisting that there was simply nothing they could do, the Feds have discovered the Social Security Card:
In a new effort to crack down on illegal immigrants, federal authorities in the United States are expected to announce tough rules this week that would require employers to fire workers who use false Social Security numbers.
Officials said the rules would be backed up by increased raids on workplaces across the country that employ illegal immigrants.
After first proposing the rules last year, Homeland Security officials said they held off finishing them to await the outcome of the debate in Congress over a sweeping immigration bill.
I’ve long been puzzled at this. If you supply a fraudulent Social Security card, you still pay social security taxes, right? And the employer is pumping their share into a fraudulent account as well? And whose “account” does that money go into? Can’t we set up computers to recognize when someone is deceased, 85 years old, 6 years old, or working in 30 different chicken processing plants? This doesn’t sound that difficult.
But they mean business now:
“We are tough, and we are going to be even tougher,” Russ Knocke, the Homeland Security spokesman, said Tuesday.
“There are not going to be any more excuses for employers, and there will be serious consequences for those that choose to blatantly disregard the law.”
Grrrrrrr.
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