As I said yesterday, what this country needs today is less partisan bickering and more people willing to find creative, goal oriented solutions to real problems. Today, my friend Ed Morrissey brings to light a group of educators in Texas who are doing just that. In a move sure to draw praise from immigration reform advocates around the nation, one Dallas school district has solved the problem of illegal immigration. The solution is so staggeringly simple in concept that most of you will be slapping your heads in one of those “why didn’t I think of that” moments. You simply take the illegal alien in question and issue them a fresh, new Social Security number. Problem solved.
Over a period of several years, a Dallas school district fraudulently issued Social Security numbers in order to employ bilingual teachers. Despite previous warnings, the DISD continued this practice until a tipster alerted investigators to the practice.
Is teaching a job Americans won’t do? Are there no bilingual educators in the US? Or was DISD just unwilling to pay a competitive rate for those instructors and conspired to get cheaper labor through fraud?
If we could get hold of roughly 20 million forms to assign new Social Security numbers to people we would have one less partisan issue to wrangle over. Well done, Dallas!