Supreme Court to Rule on Identity Fraud by Undocumented Immigrants
- State seeks to prosecute over misuse of Social Security number
- Illegal immigration issues mostly handled by federal courts
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The U.S. Supreme Court will consider letting states prosecute undocumented immigrants for identity theft if they use someone else’s Social Security number to apply for a job, agreeing to take up what could be a polarizing fight.
Heeding calls from Kansas and the Trump administration, the justices said they’ll decide whether the Kansas Supreme Court was right to say that only the federal government has the power under U.S. immigration law to press those types of prosecutions.