The Department of Homeland Security announced that it would issue new regulations aimed at employers who receive "no match" letters from the Social Security Administration

National Review, Sept 10, 2007

The Department of Homeland Security announced that it would issue new regulations aimed at employers who receive "no match" letters from the Social Security Administration. Such letters are sent to businesses that file W-2 forms on which the name and Social Security number of an employee do not match.

In most cases this means that the employee is an illegal alien. Employers who receive "no match" letters will now be required to contact the SSA and verify the status of their workers. "There will be some unhappy consequences for the economy out of doing this," said homeland-security secretary Michael Chertoff, announcing the new regulations. "We can be very sure that we let Congress understand the consequences of the choices that Congress makes." In other words: "You wanted border enforcement, and now you're going to get it good and hard." Chertoff's remarks invite one to ask whether the administration is truly committed to securing our borders, or is simply hoping that an anti-enforcement backlash will create a new opening for "comprehensive" reform. For now, though, we're just glad to see the president enforcing the law rather than advocating amnesty.