Since when does the government get to fire me?

So I read this article here in this morning's LA Times, and I am pretty angry about it.

Since when does the Federal Government have the ability to fire me? Am I now employed by them, or employed by my employer?

How do they know that workers with inconsistencies in their SSN's and their W-2's are, in fact, illegal? Have they done any studies to show the correlation? It appears, from the article, that two thirds of people who have these discrepancies are, in fact, native born, so how does that square up?

What's the process for correcting the problem? Will it end up being something as messed up as Medicare, part D, which requires a deep and intimate knowledge of Parseval's Theorem and it's solution in some kind of n-dimensional Hilbert space? I'm not even sure I know if those mathematical concepts go together, but I'm pretty sure they do, like I'm pretty sure that since I've been working 3 jobs to support myself in graduate school, I'm gonna be one of the flagged workers.

This administration started out with claims that all come from Reagan, that we're going to make government smaller, and that more government is the problem and not the solution. It seems to have caught up to them that all of the social problems they want to fix, be it showing nipples at football games, underage sex, illegal aliens, underage sex with illegal aliens while watching naked football, or any other hobgoblins that keep such God-fearing busybodies awake at night, all require some kind of government intervention.

So what's it gonna be, Republicans? More government to fix your perceived ills of society, or less government and keeping your promises?