"It's aggressive and effective," says a high government official.
"We plan to send the annual employer "no match" letters with postage due," said the official. "And we'll continue do that until the employers have complied."
"That's not surprising," [Steven Camarota, research director for the Center of Immigration Studies] said. "The administration has never shown a great desire to enforce the law."
The SSA told administrations and Congress every year for the past ten years at least that this information was available but a privacy provision made it impossible to share with immigration enforcement.
The Congressional testimony was in the context of hearings about the explosion of the Earnings Suspense File which holds the bogus / stolen SSNs unmatched to SSA master earnings files. The sudden, great increase of mismatches started during the second Clinton term and it got worse through the Bush Administration.
The Washington clowns have known it and refused to do anything. Lots of business folks like that taxpayer-subsidized, "cheap" labor and happily pay big bucks to Washington whores (no offense meant to sex workers) for it.
Now, as a quote from the article states, the plan seems to be to scare the hell out of the public to get us to demand amnesty lest we have no food; to wit:
"I think they want the public to be so damaged and so fearful that they raise a clamor."
Well, as Jim Eason retired San Francisco radio talk show host used to say, "Drip on them. Don't Return Incumbent Politicians to office."