Soon After David Sossaman began work as an investigator for the San Diego
County welfare-fraud unit, he was told by a colleague that thousands of Mexican
citizens were crossing into Southern California to collect U.S. benefits.
Disbelieving but curious, he drove to the Chula Vista welfare office about
seven miles from the Mexican border and noticed that many of the cars in the
parking lot bore Mexican license plates.
Fluent in Spanish, Sossaman talked with the owner of one car, who confirmed
that his wife was inside applying for welfare using a fictitious San Diego
address. His friends and relatives in Mexico were already drawing checks. It
was easy, they'd boasted, because welfare caseworkers verified neither
eligibility nor citizenship.
When Sossaman confronted a co-worker with what he had witnessed, the man
shrugged."It' s been this way for years,' he said, " It's our dirty little
secret."
2006-10-14
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