SS needs to talk to Facebook or Google to get one of their algorithms.
Because there's no reason that 600 people can use the same SS number except that nobody wants anybody to look.
Illegals are perfect for the donor class:
Cheap labor.
General wage depression due to the above.
Perfect scapegoats for wage stagnation.
Get rid of all of them and profits will plummet as wages will go up.
Which is why nobody even talks bad about employers.
Agree with all of the above, but you forgot to mention another issue: illegals also provide an ongoing reason to stir up the masses of sheep who vote for the GOP when it's time for elections so that the preferred politicians favored by the donors will remain in office (and of course will posture a lot but will do absolutely nothing to REALLY eliminate illegal immigration, and will certainly do absolutely nothing against employers).
The existence of illegal immigration is very convenient for and helpful to the GOP, but we know that when anything is proposed to really solve the problem, even if it is proposed by GOP senators (like Marco Rubio and John McCain tried), these senators will be labelled RINOs and their ideas will be shut down. By the way, illegal immigration is convenient for the Democratic Party as well, which will also use it for political gain, and will hope that the US citizens who have relatives south of the border will vote for the Dems, and new eligible voting citizens will join the ranks (e.g. the US born children of illegal aliens, when they reach voting age). So the bottom line is that illegal immigration is convenient for both parties (although, due to different reasons) so neither party does anything to actually solve the problem.
I stand left of center in the political spectrum but I am decisively against illegal immigration. But precisely because I'm TRULY against it (rather than merely posturing about it to score partisan points), I'm against focusing on a wall. Why? Because a wall is expensive and ineffective, can and will be defeated, and doesn't attack the root of the problem. I'd rather invest that amount of money (including the amount needed for ongoing maintenance of a wall, which groups like the drug cartels would make a point of constantly damaging just as a matter of spite) on the enforcement of existing labor laws; would hire and equip, with that money, an army of labor auditors and inspectors, to enforce the laws against the employers who knowingly and willingly hire illegal aliens (would also beef up those laws and the consequences for breaking them).
If we just build a wall and don't go after employers, this is what will happen:
Given that the job offers will continue, illegals will manage to defeat the wall anyway. People smugglers will just get more creative with ladders, tunnels, small planes, balloons, boats, etc., not to forget, people will just continue to pour in through legal checkpoints even with valid documentation (such as, will obtain visas but will then overstay the visas). Anyway, this will certainly make returning to Mexico and countries south of it, after seasonal working, more difficult and more expensive (although as I said still possible) so those seasonal workers who normally leave and don't want to settle here permanently, will just stay.
From the Mexican side of the wall which we can't patrol, drug cartels will bring the wall down in various remote points (for example, with bombs). The wall will need to be constantly repaired.
I'd have nothing against a wall (especially in certain more problematic areas) if labor laws got 100% enforced and employers were 100% severely penalized. If that truly happened and there was still money left (and illegal immigration still remained to a certain degree), then, sure, why not ALSO have a wall? But to start with and focus on a wall is just stupid and ineffective.
