You've got that potential for SS fraud whether this agreement is signed or not.
On the other hand, this agreement makes them go back to Mexico to collect.
For whatever reason, many posters on this thread seem to be jumping up and down mad about that sort of agreement.
Frankly, I *like* the idea of giving them incentives to go home. It beats the heck out of whatever we're doing today.
It is also another incentive to come here, since any SS they get from this treaty is easier and better than what they get in their own country.
For those of us paying to subsidize their children to the detriment of ours, it's just one more siphon from our bank accounts to Mexico.
How many illegal alien children in the schools of Alabama? California has, conservatively, hundreds of thousands (likely millions). The Los Angeles Unified School District is now 85% "hispanic" (really) and the San Jose Unified School District is now 55% "hispanic". Think they're all legal immigrants, or not anchor babies?