The U.S. Supreme Court will consider allowing states to prosecute illegal immigrants for identity theft if they use another person’s Social Security number to obtain a job.

A case involving three Kansas restaurant workers having done just that will be heard during the Court’s nine-month term that starts in October.

The Kansas Supreme Court threw out convictions of the illegal immigrant workers, ruling that only the federal government could prosecute based on information that comes from federal form I-9.

Prosecutors argue they should be able to use the information on the form. Lawyers for the aliens who stole someone’s identity, naturally claimed that allowing states to use federal documents to prosecute illegals could lead to discriminatory tactics.

BREAKING: Supreme Court agrees to consider letting states prosecute undocumented immigrants for identity theft if they use someone else’s Social Security number to apply for a job. — Greg Stohr (@GregStohr) March 18, 2019

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Matters such as this are currently handled at the federal level, but as Bloomberg reports, “A victory for Kansas would give states a new tool for battling illegal immigration, letting them be more aggressive” on the issue.

One would also suspect that this ‘new tool’ would be used primarily by red states, increasing lawlessness in states such as New York and California who would rather protect criminals than prosecute them.

California Dreamin’

Former California Senator Kevin de León, currently vying for a city council seat in Los Angeles, would be an example of this, according to his own words.

De León is famous for admitting during a debate that half of his family are illegal immigrants who secured false identification papers to avoid deportation.

His words exactly:

“I can tell you half of my family would be eligible for deportation under the executive order, because if they got a false Social Security card, if they got a false identification, if they got a false driver’s license prior to us passing (the sanctuary state bill), if they got a false green card, and anyone who has family members, you know, who are undocumented knows that almost entirely everybody has secured some sort of false identification. That’s what you need to survive, to work. They are eligible for massive deportation.”

Identity theft and illegal immigration. Think California is going to prosecute these crimes with Democrats like de León in their ranks? With family member themselves who have committed the same crime?

39 Million SS Numbers

A study by the Immigration Reform Law Institute revealed that between 2012 and 2016 there were “39 million instances where names and Social Security numbers on W-2 tax forms did not match the corresponding Social Security records.”

The group said illegals were taking advantage of a “thriving black market” to get Social Security numbers necessary to get jobs and presumably other services one can obtain with the number.

At the time, they also noted that the Obama administration had “stopped sending so-called ‘no match’ letters to employers notifying them that numbers used by employees on the wage forms do not match their identity.”

Another report studying roughly the same timeframe showed that Obama’s Internal Revenue Service (IRS) simply ignored over 1.3 million cases of identity theft by illegal immigrants.

In other words, they turned a blind eye to the illegal activity. Let’s hope the Supreme Court doesn’t do the same thing.