Washingtontimes.com
If the government cannot control the documents it issues, what is the point of issuing more documents, such as a national identity card?Last week U.S. Attorney William S. Duffey Jr. announced the arrest and indictment of Social Security Administration employees in Atlanta, Ga., for selling Social Security numbers to illegal aliens. The U.S. Attorney's office described the scheme as a large and lucrative business run by the 28 defendants.
A Social Security number is an important identification document. A person with a Social Security number can easily create an American existence for himself. If an illegal alien can buy a number for work purposes, a terrorist can purchase a number for his purpose.
If a Social Security number can be purchased in Fulton County, Ga., numbers can likely be bought in other locales as well. If Social Security numbers can be purchased, so also can other identification documents. It recently came to light that a U.S. consular office was selling visas to Muslims.
The U.S. government is very relaxed about illegal aliens. Little is done to protect our borders or to find illegals and deport them. As the INS does not perform its tasks, why does it exist?
The failure of the INS to protect the U.S. against entry and presence of illegal immigrants endangers the integrity of government. Prior to the presence of millions of illegals in our country, there was no illicit demand for Social Security numbers and, thus, no temptation to corruption of Social Security employees. Face it, there is the huge and overlooked cost of illegal immigration — the corruption of government agencies with power to issue important documents.
Posted by Suzanne at December 9, 2002