I think the only way to handle this mess is to make the companies that hire these people accountable. Take for example that meat packing company from last week - heck most of their staff was illegals! After the feds came in and raided them, they actually had to shut down all their facilities because they didnt have any employees anymore! Now it's dirtbags like that which should be held responsible.

>Interesting story on NBC right now. They are focusing on Glenwood Springs/Carbondale Co area. In the kindergarten class there is now only 3 English speaking children and every other child is hispanic, only speaks Spanish, and also family of illegal immigrants. Quite a change. When I was there in the early 80s there were only a couple of hispanic families. There have always been a lot of hispanics (most illegal but many citizens or green card holders) in the Grand Junction area (Denver and the whole Eastern slope as well), but there were very few in the mountain areas of Colorado. Now the workers in construction there are almost entirely illegal immigrants and a few legal immigrants. They profiled the construction company who required ssn cards and green cards to hire and the job applicants came back the next day with documentation. Of course, the ssn numbers on the cards had their names on them but were not their numbers - they belonged to someone else. Another few stolen
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>A sad system it is we have which virtually forces such a thing to occur and prevents any type of guest worker program which would allow the illegal immigrants to work here legally where they could pay taxes under their own identity and stop the majority of identity theft which occurs. Something has to change.
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>Interesting that back in the late 70s early 80s construction work was a very well paid job in Colorado and something many tried to get. I knew quite a few guys who did it and I even did for a year. Long hours but good pay. Now it is very little pay and few can afford to do it. Hire wages would put the construction contracts too expensive for anyone to afford to build. Something has to change.
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>Wonder if they have medical benefits under the stolen identities or if the construction companies now don't pay medical insurance? I wonder if they are all hired 'sub contract' which means the workers have to get their own medical insurance. The companies paid medical insurance back in the late 70s or if you were hired subcontract you got paid MORE to account for the expense of getting your own medical insurance. Somehow I think that is no longer the case.