"The ONLY way to stop it is to convince the Bush idiots this is a horrible idea so they don't sign the agreement to begin with."![](http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/p/Groups/224/224535/folders/164132/1273085USA-09.gif)
To get the Social Security money, they have to have first paid money *in* to our Social Security Administration, and then they have to return home to recieve their monthly checks.
Why is making them return to Mexico such a bad idea in your world?
It would take several pages for a complete response, including disparities in the systems between Mexico and the US, potential for fraud and lack of any way to adequately verify work histories to explain -- and someone else has done a better job. I
strongly recommend you read
Social Security "Totalization": Examining a Lopsided Agreement with Mexico to understand why anyone who has seen the numbers, including the GAO and several former Social Security commissioners, are so upset. No matter what the media tells you, this is NOT just a bunch of xenophobic Mexican haters opposed to this. This is bad, bad, bad policy. (Unless the Bush administration is deliberately trying to destroy the Social Security system so we can replace it with a freemarket alternative. But I don't think that's what's going on!)