[Lurkinanloomin]

The first thing immigrants do is get their parents over here and signed up for SS, and they get checks having never paid a dime into the program.

[11th_VA]

signed up for SS, and they get checks having never paid a dime into the program.

How can that be - you have to work 40 quarters to get SS

[Alberta's Child]

Please post any evidence you have of that. I have a close friend who is a legal immigrant. He and his wife spent five years trying to get her mother here WITHOUT any expectation that she’d be eligible for Social Security, and they finally gave up because our immigration laws are stacked so heavily against older immigrants.

[jmacusa]

Yup. I've said that here many times and some FReepers have said it isn't the case. I work in a hospital in southern NJ and fully 99% of the MD’s are all East Indian and Pakistani. They come here with their immediate families and as soon as they can they get the rest of the whole tribe over here and sign them all up for Social Security.