Apparently literary references are too high-brow for the Pioneer Press, otherwise they would have snuck one into the article "Illegal workers create ID crisis: Meatpacking towns say fake identities can create 'ghost' population". It's about all the fake IDs that those "good-hearted" workers use. Of course, that same fake ID infrastructure could be used by terrorists, but we don't need to worry about that: president Bush is taking care of that too.