Reply #87: I'm in the horse business. Lots of Hispanics work alongside me and my cohorts

[riderinthestorm]

I take a copy of their ID and SS card or green card. I check their SS numbers against the (now public and online) legal database to make sure they are legal.

But that doesn't mean they are legal. Phony ID's, green cards and SS cards are fairly easy to get.

So what do you propose us employers do? How do we "know" these guys are legal? I had the IRS send me a letter last spring about an employee who worked for me more than 10 years ago who had provided a false SS # obviously and the IRS was just catching it. The guy whose number it was was retiring and discovered this young man had been using his number. I sent my relevant copies of everything and haven't heard anything since but from what I remember, this guy was entirely "American". Dark hair but with blue eyes, perfect American accent but with a latino name.

Do I racially profile? And how do I do that when many hispanic men and women are so obviously mestizo? I do my best but even the best isn't sufficient obviously.

Replicate this by a million small businesses in the food industry, horse industry, landscaping industry, farming industry etc. etc.....

Open the borders I say. NAFTA without "the rest" of the openness was silly.