I have been a bookkeeper for most of my life.
The laws are on the books for employers to have to ascertain the status of prospective employees. They must fill out a form called an I-9 and look at documents provided my the applicant.
The biggest problem with that is that the phony parers and cards are VERY good. Some Soc Sec cards I have seen are better than my own, and I know that is legal!!!
The biggest way- IMO- to help the employers is to establish a serious electronic method of fact checking the social security number and other ID documents that are presented.
When I can buy almost anything on a credit card and get the purchase verified in a matter of less than 10 seconds no matter where I go, there is absolutely NO excuse for the Feds to not be able to provide a service for checking at least that number.
The biggest problem , IMO, is that toooooo many people at sections of the Fed Govn’mt just don’t care about doing a good job. When after years of FOIA filings, we find out last year that 436 persons were using the same Soc Sec number, and the Soc Sec Admin had done NOTHING about it, then there is a big problem.
When I was a Payroll Supervisor—30 YEARS AGO— and I would recieve “Notices of Non-Match” regarding soc sec numbers for the egg ranch Mexicans they had hired, it wook 12-18 months for these notices to come to us. By then, these people had drifted on. They KNEW how long it took for these notices to come out. Perhaps for 30 year ago technology that was ok, but not today.
We can send space craft out into the Galaxy, and cannot verify Identification data in a less than 24 hours manner, then we have a great problem.
The total lack of interest on the part of the Federal Government and it’s employees puts the average employer at a total place of vulnurability for a fiscal punishment.
Not fair.
I would like to punish the Congress and the workers at Soc Sec Admin. They just don’t seem to give a s&&&.
The laws are on the books for employers to have to ascertain the status of prospective employees. They must fill out a form called an I-9 and look at documents provided my the applicant.
The biggest problem with that is that the phony parers and cards are VERY good. Some Soc Sec cards I have seen are better than my own, and I know that is legal!!!
Jail illegal employers. Fine them, and give rewards to people who turn in illegal employers. Stop all social aid to illegals but emergency services. The problem would go away, but not before our Nixonian Republicans and corporate Socialists manage to convince a lot of brainwashed people that the sky is going to fall if illegals don’t hold it up.