immigration for dummies

[Nightingale 0]

You're also required to show a state-issued photo ID (driver's license or passport) in addition to a social security card.

It'd be easy enough to gradually phase in a thumbprint on a driver's license over the next decade or so.

There are automatic computer services that let you plug in a social security number, name, and birth date to see if they all match. We used to use one when I was a leasing agent to make sure that our renters had valid ID. No reason why an employer couldn't use a similar system to catch forged IDs. (edit: It's very easy to create a physical fake ID. It's a lot more difficult to put that ID info into a government system so the ID would check out as legit... you may fool a bartender with your fake ID, but give employers access to this system, and you probably won't fool them.)

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No reason why an employer couldn't use a similar system to catch forged IDs.

They already do.

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[Nightingale 0]

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No reason why an employer couldn't use a similar system to catch forged IDs.

They already do.

Some do. More should, and more will, especially if there are fines as penalties for hiring people without valid ID.

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and more will, especially if there are fines as penalties for hiring people without valid ID.

There are. It's about $5k per employee--Which is why our company makes it our business to be very up-to-date considering we have hundreds of thousands of employees and are audited like crazy.

Of course, I'm just a sales rep

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Imagine, if you can, that instead of China's or India's GDP that was growing by 6-10% over the last 10 years, it was ours. Then extend that back all the way to the 1920s when we foolishly clamped down on immigration.

China and India have loads of immigration?

Ever been to India? China? Not exactly how I would like to live.