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4 words: Viable. Guest. Worker. Program. Bracero Program and before were workable. Not that they are directly applicable to today, but the paperwork to work te

4 words: Viable. Guest. Worker. Program. Bracero Program and before were workable. Not that they are directly applicable to today, but the paperwork to work temporarily in the US should be made many times simpler and easier than the convoluted, kafkaesque, corrupt abomination that it is now that benefits primarily medium and large agribusinesses by exploiting undocumented persons. The meat agriculture industry openly advertises salaries in newspapers in central and south America to encourage undocumented migration. It's a dirty secret that undocumented peoples who work for large industrial concerns are generally safe from ICE raids except for occasional token enforcement to maintain the pretense, while other undocumented people are subject to raids at any time. This isn't by accident but through the power of lobbyists and money.

Tangurena2 3y ago
The last large raids were in 2006 at Swift Meat packing. What set them off was an internal investigation of a Hispanic worker in ICE who the IRS was complaining had not been paying income tax. Due to identity theft, her name & SSN were being used at more than 50 simultaneous jobs. Apparently the financial motive for a lot of identity theft is to find Hispanic name & SSN combos, which were, at least back in 2006, worth over $50 each to companies looking to dodge eVerify checks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_raids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_raids
- ftyers 3y ago
  Usually it's not the company that pays. The company just says "turn up with an SSN" and then other people who already work there put the new employee in touch with someone who deals in them. I've heard it cost 200-250$ for one. But that way the company has plausible deniability, and its the worker who is the "identity thief". A lot of the stuff is done on word of mouth, by compatriots just looking to help each other out.

Tangurena2 3y ago

The last large raids were in 2006 at Swift Meat packing. What set them off was an internal investigation of a Hispanic worker in ICE who the IRS was complaining had not been paying income tax. Due to identity theft, her name & SSN were being used at more than 50 simultaneous jobs. Apparently the financial motive for a lot of identity theft is to find Hispanic name & SSN combos, which were, at least back in 2006, worth over $50 each to companies looking to dodge eVerify checks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_raids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_raids

ftyers 3y ago
Usually it's not the company that pays. The company just says "turn up with an SSN" and then other people who already work there put the new employee in touch with someone who deals in them. I've heard it cost 200-250$ for one. But that way the company has plausible deniability, and its the worker who is the "identity thief". A lot of the stuff is done on word of mouth, by compatriots just looking to help each other out.