Burning Atlanta

I don't know what to make of this. Basically, my understanding is that if you or I knowingly use bogus SSNs we're in trouble, a heap of trouble. But in this story it sounds as if an illegal who uses a bogus card , and is charged by ICE might, have some wiggle room, legally. I think it sucks.

Clean up the laws

men used fake Social Security cards to gain employment at the local Pilgrim’s Pride plant, they might not technically have broken the law.

Juan Luis Dardon-Canelo and Andres Loarca-Reynoso, along with three others, are being criminally prosecuted in the wake of a large immigration raid in April. The pair arrived in court Monday expecting to plead guilty to using a fraudulent illegal identification document — a Social Security card — to get jobs at Pilgrim’s Pride.

U.S. District Judge Harry S. Mattice’s suggestion that a Social Security card is not necessarily a form of identification, however, has allowed more time for the defense to evaluate whether guilty pleas are appropriate.

“I’m not sure you can base this charge on a false Social Security card,” Judge Mattice said during the hearing, noting that another federal judge dropped a similar charge against Tyson Foods because of a loophole in U.S. immigration law.