{"id":9208,"date":"2009-06-25T06:33:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T14:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9208"},"modified":"2009-06-25T06:33:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T14:33:23","slug":"identity-theft-illegal-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9208","title":{"rendered":"Identity Theft &#038; Illegal Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cis.org\">From CIS.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (JUNE 25, 2009) &#8211; In May of this year, a Supreme Court decision  severely impeded the use of identity theft charges as an immigration enforcement  tool. In June, several people were arrested after a fraud scheme was uncovered  at a Florida driver&rsquo;s license bureau. In July, a new Utah law targeting illegal  aliens and document fraud will take effect. As these examples show, illegal  immigration is inherently tied to document fraud and identity theft. As states  continue to search for answers, it is apparent that the Federal government has  not yet found a working legislative solution to deter these crimes.<\/p>\n<p>A new Backgrounder by the <strong>Center for Immigration Studies<\/strong> considers how  illegal aliens perpetrate document fraud and identity theft, the effects on the  victims of this crime, as well as some proposals to deter it. &ldquo;<strong><a title=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/IdentityTheft\" href=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/IdentityTheft\">Illegal,  but Not Undocumented: Identity Theft, Document Fraud and Illegal  Employment<\/a><\/strong>,&rdquo; is written by <strong><a title=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/taxonomy\/term\/255\" href=\"http:\/\/cis.org\/taxonomy\/term\/255\">Ronald Mortensen, PhD<\/a><\/strong>, a retired  career U.S. Foreign Service Officer and former Society for Human Resource  Management senior executive. The Backgrounder is available online at:  http:\/\/www.cis.org\/identitytheft.<\/p>\n<p>The findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Illegal immigrants are not &ldquo;undocumented.&rdquo; They have fraudulent documents  such as counterfeit Social Security cards, forged drivers licenses, fake &ldquo;green  cards,&rdquo; and phony birth certificates. Experts suggest that approximately 75  percent of working-age illegal aliens use fraudulent Social Security cards to  obtain employment.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Most (98 percent) Social Security number (SSN) thieves use their own names  with stolen numbers. The federal E-Verify program, now mandated in only 14  states, can detect this fraud. Universal, mandatory use of E-Verify would curb  this and stop virtually 100 percent of child identity theft.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Illegal immigration and high levels of identity theft go hand-in-hand.  States with the most illegal immigration also have high levels of job-related  identity theft. In Arizona, 33 percent or all identity theft is job-related (as  opposed to identity theft motivated simply by profit). In Texas it is 27  percent; in New Mexico, 23 percent; in Colorado, 22 percent; California, 20  percent; and in Nevada, 16 percent. Eight of the 10 states with the highest  percentage of illegal aliens in their total population are among the top 10  states in identity theft (Arizona, California, Florida, Texas, Nevada, New York,  Georgia, and Colorado).\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Children are prime targets. In Arizona, it is estimated that over one  million children are victims of identity theft. In Utah, 1,626 companies were  found to be paying wages to the SSNs of children on public assistance under the  age of 13. These individuals suffer very real and very serious consequences in  their lives.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Illegal aliens commit felonies in order to get jobs. Illegal aliens, who use  fraudulent documents, perjure themselves on I-9 forms, and commit identity theft  in order to get jobs are committing serious offenses and are not &ldquo;law abiding.&rdquo;\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Illegally employed aliens send billions of dollars annually to their home  countries, rather than spending it in the United States and helping stimulate  the American economy. In October 2008 alone, $2.4 billion was transferred to  Mexico.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tolerance of corruption erodes the rule of law. Corruption is a serious  problem in most illegal aliens&rsquo; home countries. Allowing it to flourish here  paves the way for additional criminal activity and increased corruption  throughout society.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Leaders support perpetrators and ignore victims. Political, civic,  religious, business, education, and media leaders blame Americans for &ldquo;forcing&rdquo;  illegal aliens to commit document fraud and identity theft. No similar concern  is expressed for the American men, women, and children whose lives are destroyed  in the process.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Social Security Administration and Internal Revenue Service facilitate  illegal immigrant-driven identity theft. Both turn a blind eye to massive SSN  fraud and take no action to stop it. The Social Security Administration assigns  SSNs to new-born infants that are being used illegally. The IRS demands that  victims pay taxes on wages earned by illegal aliens using their stolen SSNs,  while taking no action to stop the identity theft.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>State and local governments need to adopt tougher laws to supplement federal  efforts. The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is targeting  large document fraud rings and the most egregious employers, but their resources  are limited and stretched across multiple priorities. In 2007, identity theft  cases represented only 7 percent of the total ICE case load.\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Employers must do their part. They can ensure that they have a legal  workforce by using a combination of the federal government&rsquo;s E-Verify and Social  Security Number Verification Service systems and by signing up for the federal  government&rsquo;s IMAGE program or privately conducted audits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CIS.org: WASHINGTON (JUNE 25, 2009) &#8211; In May of this year, a Supreme Court decision severely impeded the use of identity theft charges as an immigration enforcement tool. 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