I've already pointed out that the Obama administration is frankly encouraging illegals to game Obama's amnesty by doing no verification whatsoever. But what if the administration tried to make a good-faith effort to verify applicants' eligibility?
The applicant comes in, say with a high school transcript, showing that he is of the proper age, has been here long enough and attended high school in the U.S. The processor has to make a phone call or fax request to the high school verifying that the transcript is authentic.
Assume that each application takes only 5 minutes to conclusively verify the supporting documentation. Latest estimates are about 1.7 million illegals taking advantage of the amnesty and rising.
At five minutes each, that's 17,708 8-hour man days of verification, with no lunch or coffee breaks or inefficiencies, just processing through verifications at an average rate of 5 minutes per verification.
That's 73.75 man years of labor (at 48 40-hour weeks per year). Of course, the federal government can throw a few hundred people at this task and get it done in less than a year, but will it? Also, 5 minutes per verification is comically generous. I've tried to check around for a job applicant's references and had it take hours, end to end, with references not answering, not returning calls, requests for clarification, etc. Someone doing nothing else can get started on other verifications while waiting for calls/faxes on earlier ones, but at some point, it becomes ghastly to manage:
"You're calling back about who? Jose' Garcia? Um, do you have the case number I left you? No? Crap. El Paso school district? Um, I have 490 Jose' Garcias who said they went to high school in El Paso. What? You've had 680 Jose' Garcia's in the past 20 years? Geez. Let's just call him verified. Which one? All of them."
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