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Stefan Grossman's avatar

It’s pretty simple—either illegals are using fake SSN’s and/or employers aren’t making social security payments. Either circumstance is a federal offense, and hopefully the Trump administration starts to look at employers.

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Garry Perkins's avatar

Every year they get a letter with the bad SSN's. The employees give new ones and are re-hired as new employees. The easiest way to tell is to see new hires at long-term employee wages (most labor-type jobs pay terribly, then you get $1 more after six months, $3 after a year,..., so a new hire making $25 per hour is probably on his fifth or more SSN).

That is not what gets people angry. What gets people angry are illegals getting welfare benefits. I know it is not popular here, but most people do not care about people who come here to work, make no trouble, then either marry a local or go home with enough money to start a business or buy a farm. What people cannot tolerate are welfare cheats and criminals. Those are the people to go after, not some poor SOB working in a sweat shop and sending money home to his wife and kids. I have worked next to many Asian and Latin American migrants of questionable legality, and they are not bad people, but the system is bad for everyone. We need to have a correct level of legal migration (say 1.5m per year, grossed up in boom times), so we get a DIVERSE group of people who come and work hard and HAVE CHILDREN because Americans have basically stopped doing this. We can make the system work, but we must be realistic. A raw slamming of the door with 1m immigrants a year will not be bad for a couple years, and will raise wages and reduce inequality, but business will squeal and inflation will rise considerably. If we adjust the unfair stuff (H1B's going to gas station attendants), that would go a long way, but it may be that we need to raise legal immigration, and it will have consequences.

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Flippin’ Jersey's avatar

"If Illegal Immigrants are such freeloaders, how come ICE is picking them up at work?"

No discussion is needed here. If this is expressed to you, the proper response is “You are admitting they are here illegally, therefore all that follows is also illegal.”

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HuCamus's avatar

You all must be relieved to feel you can speak of such things out loud, for before PROTUS47, you were deplorable.

Stay strong, stay decent, for to dip into the recent insanity, is the road to hell. lies are lies, and censorship is slavery no matter how much the top dog wants it silenced.

Love from England.,💞

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Adam B. Coleman's avatar

Thank you! Right back at you!

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Betsy's avatar

Very true.

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Frank Lee's avatar

And Democrats have been relying on the fake IDs to harvest more votes.

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GadflyBytes's avatar

Hadn’t thought of that. Much is coming to light.

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Bonita's avatar

Great article; I never could have imagined this level of fraud, however, it makes so much sense of what we are seeing. Thank you!

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Adam B. Coleman's avatar

My pleasure!

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ASensibleMan's avatar

Every Chinese grandma that steps off the Airbus is getting social security two days later. While their son is a quant at Goldman Sachs making $400k a year. Every. Single. One.

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