Reply #49: something I noticed

[justabob]

I get the part about the seriousness of identity theft and how that angle of the story needs to be looked at more fully. However my experience, with the guys I worked with, doing their new hire paperwork was they had fake ids with god knows whose number on it only to file the I-9 at work... I am sure there are some who take it further, but I doubt it is the norm. And yes family members and friends do often loan out their legit ssns for this purpose.

What is interesting is that, unless I missed it, not one person so far in this thread has mentioned what should happen to the employer employing all the undocumented people. (unless they are the ones providing the ids - someone mentioned that angle) Many have chimed in to say these people should be shipped back to the border, and some righteous sheriff bashing... but even here, now mid-debate we don't think to look at the employer who accepted all the bad ids.... Just noticing.