Welfare to kids of illegals in LA County costs $276 million per year

[MaggieL]

Originally Posted by marichiko

Make green cards really hard to forge...

Make an identity document that's hard to forge; green cards don't cut it.

Notional pre-hire conversation:

"Where's your green card?"
"I don't need one, I'm a citizen. Here's my driver's licence."
"But you 'look hispanic'."
"Racist!"

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Better pre-hire converstion, just as notional:

"May I see your ID so I can fill out the I-9 form?"
"Certainly, here you go."
"Thank you...it will just be a miniute while I call it in....OK, it checks as valid."

The magic is in the "checks as valid" part. A Java-based smart card could do it.