The Supreme Court on March 3 upheld the power of states to pursue illegal aliens for identity theft, ruling against three men who used someone else’s Social Security number to gain employment.
In the decision, the justice ruled 5–4 that Kansas can rely on false information used by illegal aliens in their W-4 and K-4 tax-withholding forms to prosecute them for identity theft even if they used the same false information on their I-9 work authorization forms. The I-9 form is used by employers to attest that an employee is authorized to work.
