Business as usual for liberal Dem state legislators in Massachusetts. Back in the days of Governor Michael Stanley ("The Duke", "Il Duce") Dukakis, Massachusetts state agencies (motor vehicles, welfare) would assign false Social Security Numbers to illegal aliens so they could receive driver licenses and welfare benefits.
This push to coddle illegal aliens to the detriment and expense of state taxpayers is an almost annual occurrence. Unfortunately for the bleeding heart liberal legislators, illegal aliens would occassionally inflict bodily harm upon law-abiding citizens (stabbing, shooting, drunken driving, drug dealing) and lose sympathy among the unwashed masses.
Back in the 1990s, a Massachusetts state trooper and a Massachusetts Reigistry of Motor Vehicles employee conspired to issue driver's licenses to illegal Domincan immigrants who used forged Puerto Rican birth certificates and dead people's Social Security Numbers.
No documentation issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts should ever be trusted as proof of identification.