Background checks for illegals

It's been a while since anything regarding immigration has been highlighted here, so let me present a column showing the absurdity of the supposed background checks that will be part of any amnesty package:

Yet proponents of immigration reform insist that the tens of millions of illegal immigrants who will step forward to claim a chance at legalization can indeed have their histories adequately researched. Some have even suggested that background checks on illegal immigrants could be conducted in a similar fashion to the so-called instant background checks that are used to screen potential gun buyers.

This fiction slips into the public discourse so easily simply because too many reporters have become stenographers, transcribing comments by rote and declining to challenge or analytically explore such sweeping claims.

Fundamental questions about these proposed background checks remain unanswered because they are not asked: What agency will conduct them? What universe of source material will be researched? What is the scope of the search? What's the criterion for approval or denial of the immigrant's application? What is the budget for this mammoth undertaking? And here's the biggie that presidential candidates Mr. Obama, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. McCain are all loathe to answer: Will illegal immigrants whose background checks are flagged and applications for legalization denied face immediate deportation?

Should the American people be asked to believe that Mexico — the corruption-riddled narco-state that is responsible for seven out of every 10 illegal immigrants in the United States today — will provide adequate information about its citizens that may result in their deportation home? Or is it more likely the Mexican government will do whatever it takes to ensure they stay in America and continue wiring billions in hard cash back to Mexico?

Here's my own question: Will document fraud (in regard to using a false social security number for employment) be one of the crimes that would get someone flagged as a criminal alien worthy of deportation?

If so, then there isn't any point to these background checks since they will all fail.

If not, then the message is that tax and social security fraud are just A-OK.