Couldn't anchor babies real social security numbers be used for fraud?. It's very easy to assume a child's identity. Using the child's SS number can go undetected for up to 18 years. Who checks the child's credit rating anyway? I suspect many illegals convince themselves that using the child's number is easier than buying a phony ID. Has anyone made any inquiries into how many anchor babies are "working"? Call me cynical, but legal or illegal, american or not, any child's SS number can be sold to others and used for fraud.

When social service agencies give public assistance to illegals who have limited "documentation" (parents of anchor babies, for instance) What's to stop the illegal from appying in many offices under many phony id"s (maybe even adding a few kids to the application)? And what's to stop identity thieves from applying for duplicate mortgage loans, duplicate school grants and a hundred other benefits that don't look too closely at the verification of who the person really is ?

I have heard of cases where unscrupulous Americans, welfare fraudsters, had visited agencies in many cities and states and were collecting a hundreds of thousands monthly. I wonder if this is how some illegals afford the fancy cars and houses. I can't imagine working for minimum wage would qualify them for much. Something is very fishy.How "honest" are these applicants for services?

Lastly, do these social security databases that are to be queried by employers, show age of applicant? It should at least have a code of when it was issued. So illegals couldn't use a newborn's SS number for their own work.