Take a look at a piece from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trying to reassure us that the E-Verify error rate is not that high. Using a rather optimistic assumption, DHS comes up with one-half of one percent of all workers having to contact the Social Security Administration to straighten out the mismatch between their name and Social Security number. There are 138 million people employed in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This would mean only 690,000 people desperately trying to contact the Social Security Administration at a time when the agency cannot adequately answer its telephones and has lines forming outside the doors of some of its offices because they are afraid of losing their jobs. That is a nightmare for Social Security and for those 690,000 people right there.
What I love about this DHS piece is the placid assumption that the 5.3% of people with mismatches who fail to straighten out their records must be illegal aliens and that anyone who worries about that 5.3% is a nasty lover of illegal aliens. No doubt that a lot of that 5.3% are illegal aliens, but anyone who thinks they are all illegal aliens is naive. There is a lot of procrastination in the world. Some significant part of that 5.3% are procrastinators. No one knows what percent of people with mismatches are U.S. citizens who will get thrown out of their jobs because they fail to promptly resolve the mismatch -- or will only make a serious effort to resolve the mismatch after they get thrown out of their jobs.
What I love about this DHS piece is the placid assumption that the 5.3% of people with mismatches who fail to straighten out their records must be illegal aliens and that anyone who worries about that 5.3% is a nasty lover of illegal aliens. No doubt that a lot of that 5.3% are illegal aliens, but anyone who thinks they are all illegal aliens is naive. There is a lot of procrastination in the world. Some significant part of that 5.3% are procrastinators. No one knows what percent of people with mismatches are U.S. citizens who will get thrown out of their jobs because they fail to promptly resolve the mismatch -- or will only make a serious effort to resolve the mismatch after they get thrown out of their jobs.
2 comments:
So the assumptions DHS makes are hard to believe, but all the articles with the 40 billion dollar cost and SSA office being flooded with people are gospel truth. How naive do you think we are?
If someone (U.S. citizen included) is to lazy to go to an SSA office to save their job, shame on them.
That DHS article is correct in that the people that don't want E-verify in place are the people that benefit from illegal immigration, i.e. employers and illegals and their liberal support groups.
I guess you will be against E-Verify until people start hiring illegals to represent them for disability claims.
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