You know what's going to be funny? Once we allow undocumented workers legal status, all this "they do work Americans won't do or for a price Americans won't do it for" garbage is going to be over. Because the first thing they'll do once they don't have to worry about the fear of deportation is form unions and protest their working conditions fiercely as they're already largely organized due to the nature of their residency status and the requirements that places on them. Politicians and partisans on both side of the aisle are going to soil their panties when that happens.

"A good number of them work under false Social Security numbers and they pay their taxes in to the government the same as everyone else."

This is half true. There is a whole underground network of people sharing real SSN's with those who need them as a condition of their employment. Every restaurant kitchen I've ever worked in was staffed by people who worked under real SSN's. A lot of them had more than one so that they could work OT in order not to attract attention when the record showed a legal resident working more than 16 hours a day all year long.

"Every restaurant kitchen I've ever worked in..." should read "Kitchens of every restaurant I've ever worked at..."

I was a FOH guy. Better money and you don't come home smelling quite as bad.

I took "false" to mean fake. In my anecdote the SSN's were note fake.

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"Of course..."

Things that occurred to me after the fact. As far as I know, yes, if they know the person whose SSN they are using they get a percentage of any refunds due. Not all know the owner of their SSN personally though. And as far as retirement benefits go, the owner of the SSN gets all that. Oldies are more likely to share their numbers as they are often working fewer hours and are less likely to draw an audit.