Workplace raids demonstrate the vulnerability of the E-Verify system, experts say

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3. I was reading up on this last week

i.e., how do undocumented workers get Social Security numbers. It appears that they obtain primarily from people who make it a business to provide fake SSNs...either generated by a random number generator that utilizes the SSN format, using stolen SSNs from current workers, or using SSNs of people who are dead.

What confuses me is why doesn't eVerify pick up on this? Surely they have access to the SSN database; if an SSN is provided via a random number generator, it shouldn't be in the SSN database, or if it is, it should be assigned to someone with a different name. If it's stolen from a live person, same thing - names shouldn't match. If it's taken from someone who is dead, that SSN should show up in the SSN Death Index.

What is the point of all of this data if it isn't used to prevent fraud?