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To: Brilliant; HiJinx
"...no longer “illegal” and are therefore entitled to claim it..."

That ain't how it works.

The SSA makes it really easy to pay SS taxes, but getting the money back requires all kinds of birth certificates, income tax returns, marriage licenses, everything.  I've been there, I know.   Americans are "entitled" to only what they can prove they paid for legally.

Unless of course congress changes things...

52 posted on 04/16/2008 4:19:24 AM PDT by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama

You misunderstood me. If you work as an illegal alien, pay social security taxes, and then become a legal alien, and eventually a citizen, you get social security even though you may not have paid much into the system.

Their analysis only says that if you work as an illegal alien, and pay social security, then you’re not likely to claim it bcause you’re an illegal alien. So the amount the “illegals” pay in dwarfs what the illegals get out. But it doesn’t necessarily dwarf what is paid out if you count those who eventually do get their citizenship and claim the benefits.

And there are some in Congress who want to make all these illegals into citizens.

It’s nothing but an effort to mislead.


55 posted on 04/16/2008 5:50:19 AM PDT by Brilliant
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