As I may have said in our class, illegal immigrant workers do not all know that Identity Theft is a crime, or at least they fully understand it.
That point is made in this article by this statement, "In at least hundreds of cases last year, workers accused of immigration violations found themselves facing the more serious identity theft charge as well, without any indication they knew their counterfeit Social Security and other identification numbers belonged to actual people and were not made up."
It also touches on the supply and demand issues and doesn't mention that getting an identity is a problem when they state "..traveled to Chicago and bought numbers from someone who trades in counterfeit IDs." I don't see that they indicated this was a difficult or mystifying process. It is presented as pretty straightforward from the way I read this.
The article is on Yahoo News here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090222/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_identity_theft
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