The fact is: Social Security (feds) already confiscated those funds. "Jose" can never draw that S.S. on a stolen or fraudulent card number. that card is used to get employment.
Since 1986, there has been one huge amnesty and seven mini-amnesties. Millions of illegal aliens have had their status adjusted from illegal to permanent resident and citizen.
The fact is that it has been the practice of the Social Security Administration to retroactively give these millions of former illegals credit for monies paid into Social Security using fake and fraudulent social security numbers if they could document those payments with check stubs.
There is no reason to believe that this practice will not continue if President Bush succeeds with his Shamnesty for millions more illegals and it would be specifically required by the Totalization agreement that President Bush's Administration has executed with Mexico and which this article suggests may soon be submitted to Congress for ratification.