I have a more optimistic disposition than Derb, but sometimes even I think we might be doomed after all:

Mexican Nonprofit, Pennsylvania Accountants Work to Help Deported Mexicans File Refunds
BNA Daily Tax Report, 9/21/09
MEXICO CITY—A partnership between a Pennsylvania accounting firm and a Mexican human rights group aims to seek out Mexicans recently deported from the United States and offer to help them file for thousands of dollars in tax refunds.
The Center for Border Studies and Human Rights Promotion, based in the border city of Reynosa, already has registered 15 such migrants as of Sept. 11, just days after the program’s Sept. 3 launch, the center’s legal coordinator, Felipe Gonzalez, told BNA.
Undocumented Mexican migrants may have worked illegally in the United States, but they are still entitled to their share of U.S. tax refunds, say officials with the center and with Warminster, Pa.-based accounting firm Warminster Financial.
“If you worked in the United States in 2006, 2007, or 2008, and were paid by check, you can receive up to $15,000 per year,” stated a flier circulated by Warminster. “Depending on how much you’ve earned, and how many dependents you can claim, you have the right to request a tax refund. It doesn’t matter if you are undocumented, were deported, or returned [to Mexico] because you’re out of a job.”
Clients who are eligible must file for an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN), which is granted by the Internal Revenue Service regardless of the workers’ migratory status or whether they produced false Social Security numbers or green cards, Gonzalez said. Elizabeth Vargas, an IRS acceptance agent in Mexico, confirmed in an interview with BNA that the process is legal. …

Of course, the IRS has given tax ID numbers to millions of illegal aliens so they can get refunds, so, heck, why not mail them checks after they’ve been deported, too?