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Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution
ConfusedVorlon writes "The BBC reports on the sad case of Simon Bunce. Mr. Bunce had his identity stolen, and credit cards were made to capitalize on the theft. Some of those cards were used at sites offering child pornography, and as a result Mr. Bunce was swept up in Operation Ore. The poor man was prosecuted for his 'crime', and was eventually found innocent, but in the meantime he lost his job. It took him six months to find another at a quarter of the salary. 'The police's computer technicians take several months to examine [his computers and records], and Mr Bunce could not afford to wait to repair the damage done to his reputation. "I knew there'd been a fundamental mistake made and so I had to investigate it." Recent surveys suggest that as many as one in four Britons have been affected by it. In 2007 more than 185,000 cases of identity theft were identified by Cifas, the UK's fraud prevention service, an increase of almost 8% on 2006.'"
I'd be a heck of a lot more worried about middle-class Mexican undocumented workers flooding the US with a new amnesty program (also currently under consideration, just like SAVE is) that will take your job for half the pay. What utterly unique skills do you have that are worth double the going rate of pay? Unless you are working in theoretical physics or biomedical research the answer is almost certainly that you have no unique skills.
Jobs are going to go to the lowest bidder, and as an employer I get to choose, you don't. There are laws about employment discrimination that make it illegal to use just about any form of constructive "discrimination", like choosing to only hire native-born Americans.
Should something get enacted that doesn't throw undocumented workers out of the country, we are looking at a whole new world of labor in the US as more and more cheap labor floods in. In 1986 there was a promise of "never again". You see how long that lasted. I live in Phoenix, AZ and jobs are getting cheaper here all the time, even with the new state employer sanctions law.
Can you live on a salary that is good enough for undocumented workers? Better hope so. Our elected representatives want to make sure that labor gets cheaper and there are lots of people that are very thankful for their jobs - and vote for the people that gave them their jobs in the US.
By the way, there is an appeal process for the E-Verify system when it kicks you out that makes sure you keep your job. So your nonsense about no appeal is bunk. But if you have no ID or just a matriculation document from the Mexican Embassy and E-Verify says no good, I'd think about finding a different employer. Texas is hiring big time, and plenty of undocumented workers are moving there from Arizona and Oklahoma where they enacted new sanctions laws. But here in Phoenix the mayor is fighting the county Sheriff over deporting people, fighting for the right to have cheap labor.
It's not racist and you're the race baiter. He's talking about illegal immigrants, not legal citizens or workers and he said not a thing about the color of the hiree.
You are throwing straw because you have nothing else to throw. Same reason he was labeled flamebait.
Yeah, here's a hint: people break and enter to steal your DVD player or TV, not to tie the females of the household up and torment them sexually.
Spear or sword? What kind of frothing at the mouth idiot are you?
The only thing worse than you is the people who spot someone on their property at the property line, and rather than call law enforcement, decide they're going to actively lay in wait.
You're a clown. Most cities would only have maybe one per 100,000, at most "family terrorized in home by intruders" stories per year.