THROUGH SOCIAL SECURITY THE FEDS KNOW WHO HIRES ILLEGAL ALIENS

“There are two dirty little secrets behind the debate over the illegal alien issue that even the advocates of securing the borders first have failed to discuss. The first secret is that the estimated twelve to twenty million aliens living and working illegally in the United States have to commit identity theft to secure employment. The second secret is that without illegals’ payroll tax contributions, filed under stolen or fraudulent Social Security numbers, the Social Security system would collapse years earlier than estimated.

Hard to believe, here are the facts.”

– Townhall.com, July 19, 2006

Why does the government, Social Security, protect illegal aliens using fraudulent social security cards? Since 2% of the employers hire 30% of the illegal aliens, why doesn’t government investigators close those businesses?

These are questions being raised by Herman Cain, a business leader from Georgia and the chairman of Godfathers Pizza.. Worse, the Feds have information, exact information on the name of the every employer that hires illegal aliens (and still pays into Social Security). Is it possible that almost overnight we could end the onslaught of illegal aliens just by enforcing the laws? Imagine if each company that hired illegal aliens were sent a notice that they ha, and the current law allows it, to pay a $10,000 fine per illegal aline that they hired? Just a letter. Then, the Feds could use private collection agencies to collect the money..so no government resources would be needed. This would cause a new industry to be developed, attorneys and collection agencies would get a percentage of the collections, and if the business did not pay, action could be taken to close the business.

Either we get serious about enforcing the laws, or we decide to open our borders and have no laws governing businesses. If we can’t stop people, we know, are using phony ID’s, then how can we do anything else?

What do you think? Is it possible to enforce just this one law, and stop businesses from hiring illegal aliens? What do you think the response from business will be?

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Steve Frank is the publisher of California Political News and Views and a Senior Contributor to CaliforniaConservative.org. He is also a consultant currently working on gambling issues and advising other consultants on policy and coalition building.

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