The easy availability of counterfeit documents has made a mockery of the current I9 process. Fake documents are produced by the millions and can be obtained easily and cheaply. Thus. the current system benefits unscrupulous employers who do not mind hiring illegal aliens but want to show that they have met their legal requirements. and it harms employers who dont want to hire illegal aliens but have no choice but to accept documents they may suspect of being counterfeit. The failure of the current process is evidenced by the millions of "no match" letters generated each year by the Social Security Administration. Each year. the Social Security Administration processes about 250 million W2s. It is able to match more than 95 percent of these. However. nearly 9 million W2s contain names and social security numbers that do not match the Social Security Administrations records. It is widely believed that many. if not most. of these no matches are due to the employment of illegal aliens. This problem must be addressed. We cannot control our boalders. or create an enforceable guest worker program. until we have a reliable and secure employment verification system.
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