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Re: Why am I insensitive or racist if I find this wrong?
Actually the Center for Immigration Studies has posted many a study that has been pro-illegal alien just as much as they have posted antil-illegal alien studies. They're one of the very few non-partisan groups that I have seen.
This surprises you how? The Federal government has proven time again that they won't actually enforce illegal alien laws. And identity theft and fraud are considered federal crimes and as such States cannot investigate them without the consent of the Feds.
1: It wouldn't raise employer cost if they made the e-verify system freely available. As a taxpayer I have no problem with that. IMO the only ones that would are those that are pro-illegals.
2: That wouldn't be the purview of the IRS, it'd be in the purview of ICE.
3: No need to do this. But co-operation among agencies would most certainly help. There is no reason why the IRS could not report situations of identical SSN's being used to the proper authorities, such as the FBI who upon further review could report the problem to ICE if an illegal alien was found to be using identity theft instead of a citizen. Personally I can't understand why federal agencies cannot co-operate with each other in order to reduce crime. Be it illegal immigration or any other type of crime.
I wouldn't put stock in source. Look at this claim:
Actually the Center for Immigration Studies has posted many a study that has been pro-illegal alien just as much as they have posted antil-illegal alien studies. They're one of the very few non-partisan groups that I have seen.
There are about 1,500,000 kids in Arizona (US census). That would mean that according to that source anywhere from 60% to 70% of Arizona's kids would be victims of identity theft. All that ID theft an no action by either the state or federal government?
This surprises you how? The Federal government has proven time again that they won't actually enforce illegal alien laws. And identity theft and fraud are considered federal crimes and as such States cannot investigate them without the consent of the Feds.
Now read this one:
And then read this one:
The E-Verify program was created BY the DHS AND the IRS, so they are basically stating that even though they are pushing employers to sign up for a program created by the IRS, the IRS isn't doing enough to stop illegal immigration! Well, what exactly is the IRS supposed to do? Send armed law enforcement agents to employers who won't comply with the law? Create a report button a-la-debate politics? Then the nonstop calls of Big Brother from Libertarians would never stop. In short, it's damned if you do for the IRS, damned if you don't. If they create a system that essentially made it impossible to hire illegal immigrants, they'd be forced to
1) Make E-Verify mandatory for all employers, which would raise the cost of hiring itself -and would be attacked by small business owners and Democrats.
2) Send employees to check on ALL businesses (remember, most illegal immigrants work for small business owners) and require even more funding than today. This sounds great until you remember that the GOP wants to gut the IRS and in some cases even shut it down.
3) Consolidate 3 agencies into one: ICE, IRS and SSA and create a single agency with the power to tax, deal with immigration and SS. That would make the heads of most 17 year old Libertarians explode. As much as I like it, it's still unfeasible.
So... what is the IRS supposed to do according to the CIS?
1: It wouldn't raise employer cost if they made the e-verify system freely available. As a taxpayer I have no problem with that. IMO the only ones that would are those that are pro-illegals.
2: That wouldn't be the purview of the IRS, it'd be in the purview of ICE.
3: No need to do this. But co-operation among agencies would most certainly help. There is no reason why the IRS could not report situations of identical SSN's being used to the proper authorities, such as the FBI who upon further review could report the problem to ICE if an illegal alien was found to be using identity theft instead of a citizen. Personally I can't understand why federal agencies cannot co-operate with each other in order to reduce crime. Be it illegal immigration or any other type of crime.