This will surely kill Social Security. If Bush offers a Social Security check for all who claim they bought a stolen Social Security card and worked here 1 or 2 years or so with it -- all kinds of people who never worked here will show up claiming they did. If one illegal used a fraudulent set of documents for 10 years --- and the minimum is 18 months --- what stops that illegal from claiming he worked 18 months, then his brothers each worked 18 months, then his cousins borrowed the card....
And what happens if 10 illegals show up all claiming to have used the same stolen number? There is no way at all to prove which one if any really used it --- so they'd all have to get a check.
Then there are the illegals who attempted to be more honest --- didn't go to the organized criminals who provide fraudulent documents --- these are the illegals who might have taken jobs Americans least did want, got paid in cash, didn't pay into Social Security with their stolen numbers --- and we're going to deny them the checks we give those who claim to have committed felony document fraud?
The fraud will be so extreme -- it's like hitting the jackpot for anyone who did or would claim they did steal a Social Security number.
My take on this proposal is that it can not be retroactive. Sounds more like a new policy for a worker program to be started. I can not see how it could possibly be used to give anyone ss benefits retroactively for people without valid ID's. Well that is how I read it anyway. Either way the ss system is going to be abused and now we will be competing on a global scale for the few remaining jobs left.