(PJ Media) There was a time when theft required a crowbar. Today it requires a laptop.
The modern criminal no longer kicks down the front door. He logs onto a government website, steals someone else's identity — or even that of a deceased person — then creates a ghost student who never intends to attend class but collects thousands of dollars in federal financial aid, and disappears before the semester begins.
No shattered windows. No getaway car. No fingerprints. Just another transfer of taxpayer money from honest work to organized fraud.
The No Aid for Ghost Students Act of 2026, recently passed by the House of Representatives but awaiting final enactment, has received little public attention. That is unfortunate because it raises a far bigger question than student aid:
Does America still possess the moral confidence to defend what belongs to everyone?