Steve
Did you actually read what I wrote before?
All kinds of folks have access to the SS database...mostly insurance, credit and healthcare companies.
In fact, Homeland Security has had a pilot program (IMAGE) for several years in which employers had access to do exactly what I explained: They checked Social Security numbers in real time. One of those companies was Swift, believe it or not, which got hit with the big raids. The problem had nothing to do with the Social Security side of things. The problem had to do with the photo ID side of the I-9 form, ie., driver's licenses, etc. Again, if we had photos on the Social Security cards, we wouldn't have that problem.
In the several years they have had the pilot program with access to the Social Security database...zero problems.
During that same time period, literally hundreds of thousands of credit card account numbers/personal information held by Visa and Mastercard have been hacked, not to mention military laptops, etc.
If you would like actually become educated on the subject upon which you are offering up opinions about, take a look here:
http://www.ice.gov/partners/opaimage/index.htm
The only phuking reason it is still a voluntary pilot program and not mandatory are the liberal basturds fighting what they believe to be an Orwellian threat to personal liberties.
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/3861
I am defending an employer who is alleged to be discriminating against women by not hiring enough of them...a class action involving thousands of claimants. Now, wouldn't you imagine that for a claimant to be able to go forward, she should have to prove that she is entitled to work in the Unitied States like everyone else is supposed to? Despite the logic in that premise, I am not allowed to ask that either by way of interrogatory or in a deposition...due to IRCA and the EEOC's enforcement of it and Title VII. That was something the phuking Democrats put in the law in the 60s (Title VII) and 80s (IRCA).
http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/fs-nator.html
It is frustrating to read media bullsh!t, political sound bites and unadulturated uninformed internet expert opinions when folks simply don't take the time to read and understand what the real issues are. All folks see are Mexicans hanging around in emergency rooms and taking jobs and then they blame employers...but fail to see that it is because of the liberal kocksucking POS scum sucking pricks (Democrats, unions, plaintiffs attorneys and their fellow travelers) who want to protect every assinine ACLU-generated argument for protecting unimagined and non-existant "civil rights" for every sh!thead that ought to get the phuk off this planet, that we have the problem we do...
...but that's just my opinon after living with this crap in the real world for nearly 30 years. I'm sure others here have much more experience and can offer up much better advice from another country or from working on computer programs.
We can't even process passport renewals fast enough so that folks traveling to phuking Canada and Mexico have to present them to come back in, despite Homeland Security giving notice two phuking years ago, and yet it is suggested that everyone carry them around in their phuking back pocket? Wouldn't a little SS card with a pic be a little easier to carry?
Personally...I prefer some digits on the wrist, but some Austrian muthaphuka gave that concept a bad name some years ago.
Rest assured that this post will be followed with posts from folks who will suggest some wonderful armchair solution grabbed out of their arse, or some rant about arresting 12 million folks and marching them across the border when it would be more beneficial to our economic welfare to hook up every trailer and pull those generally toothless married cousins north into Canada and to reflood New Orleans and have a few of those folks float towards that seemingly immortal cigar chomping prick's island splender...but the Great Chairman tried moving around millions to make his little corner of the world a utopia of efficiency and everyone got pissed off, due in no small part to his b!tch of a wife and her sixpack of watered down tea drinkers trying to make a few bucks. In other words, I cannot hold oxygen in my massive chest long enough to see folks' heads pop out of their arses and see the light.
...just my humble opinion, of course, and your mileage may vary.