[Happy2BMe]

Love it.

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What will happen when the 10 million Mexicans living in the United States become too old to work?

[Happy2BMe]

Our compassionate conservative government is gonna fix this problem - dontcha think?

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Mexico is not prepared to receive them back.

With a fast-aging population living in Mexico and virtually no system of social security or health insurance, Mexico could hardly cope with millions of returning immigrants who spent their working lives in the United States.

[radar101]

Got the answer to that one.
They claim a Worker's Compensation injury, and use it for retirement

[StuLongIsland]

Leave it to the politicians, Republican or Democrat, they will figure how to get these criminals on Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare or what ever it is and make US pay for it. Come up with some lame excuse they worked for us.

[andyk]

In the past ten years, crossing the border has become much more difficult as immigration restrictions have been tightened.

Come again?! Yes, illegal immigration has plummeted in the last decade.

[doug from upland]

They will retire here with Social Security and other retirement benefits. They will find some way to sue an employer for whom they worked illegally to get hundreds of thousands of additional dollars.

[TheOracleAtLilac]

no system of social security or health insurance

I believe the article is wrong on both counts

[Republicus2001]

heh, just doing the crimes Americans refuse to do...as I've noted here before every single illegal alien working in the US is doing so with either a phony or stolen identification...THAT my friends is the REAL Social Security crisis..

[Clemenza]

I know that Greeks and Dominicans in the New York area typically return to their home countries when they retire.

[SF Republican]

I visit wine country regularly and friends up there say by far most want to make their money and go home.

[kittymyrib]

Simple solution...deport them NOW.

[RightWinger]

I'm sure US taxpayers will pay for it, we always do.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

I am already paying for healthy citizens lives over the age of 65 in the us anyway. Every young crabby geezer expects me to fork over more of my hard earned money to pay for their arthritis and blood pressure meds when they are plenty healthy to continue working on their own. What harm is a few more non-americans gonna do.

By the way, it doesn't have to be just mexicans. It's also the East europeans and vietnamese.

[swampfox98]

We are paying dearly for Mexico's unrestricted breeding policies. Why should Americans be forced to subsidize Mexico's uninhibited unprotected screwing? I'm sure Mr. President and the Catholic Church leaders have a good answer.

[BeerSwillr]

the fiery ritual of carousel

[Zrob]

>In the past ten years, crossing the border has become much more difficult as immigration restrictions have been tightened.


You can tell from that line the authors are clueless.

[CAWats]

...an estimated 710,000 Mexicans older than 60 lived in the United States


What a joke. There's more than that in So. Cal alone.

[Plutarch]

The cheap labor lobby cares no more about what happens when the Mexicans retire than they do about the additional societal costs now. All they care about is that today they've got to get the melons picked, or the house framed and if Pedro can do it cheaper they make more profit.

And our President Bush is in thrall to the cheap labor lobby.

[snowman1]

There is an agreement to allow Mexican Nationals to claim SS after only paying into the system for 8 quarters. You have to pay in for 40.

[moehoward]

Mexico is not prepared to receive them back. With a fast-aging population living in Mexico and virtually no system of social security or health insurance, Mexico could hardly cope with millions of returning immigrants who spent their working lives in the United States.

Of course Mexico doesn't want them back. Sure they are happy to have all that remittance cash propping up their economy, but they NEVER wanted these people to begin with.

[potlatch]

Our children will suffer. I've been telling mine to start saving NOW!