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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: Lane3 who wrote (10413)2/11/2017 4:27:45 PM
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>> The best solution was the one legislated way back when but never enforced that required employers to verify citizenship of hires. Had that happened, things would be very different now.

That may be.

When I was a practicing CPA in Texas, we had produce every quarter a "wages listing" for the unemployment commission -- essentially, a listing of every employee with name & SS & gross wages.

In Dallas there was an area where someone who needed labor could drive to and hire Mexican labor for the day or a week or whatever. At 7am that area would be packed with foremen picking people to work for that day. Commodity labor.

After TRA86, the rules became more stringent, and you HAD to see the SS card and have a SS # before you hired them. And you couldn't just call them "subcontractors" anymore and get away with it.

At the end of the quarter, I would have these employers give me the SSNs for their laborers. It wasn't uncommon to find the same SSN six or eight times -- associated with different names -- all the way down the list. Or even on other employer's listings.

There was a local flea market selling fake SS cards all with the same number on them.
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