[3AngelaD]

This article omits some relevant information:

In June, 2004, President Bush's Social Security Administration negotiated a deal with Mexico named "Totalization", to allow Mexicans who work for a period of time (legally or illegally) in the United States to collect money from the U.S. Social Security system when they retire in Mexico.

Thanks to the efforts of members of The Conservative Caucus, this deal has not gone into effect yet. The President must send it to Congress, which has 60 legislative days for either house to reject it by majority vote to kill it. If Congress does nothing for those 60 days, it will automatically go into effect. Because the Mexican raid deal is not a treaty, the Senate does not have to ratify it by a 2/3 majority. It was negotiated by authority of a law passed by Congress in 1977 giving the government the ability to negotiate such agreements, subject to Congressional review.

The Conservative Caucus has led the fight to block this irresponsible deal which would drain our Social Security budget. Due to our efforts, President Bush has not sent the agreement to Congress for fear it would be rejected. We have alerted by special mailings over a half million Americans, made tens of thousands of legislative alert phone calls, and delivered to date more than 136,000 signed petitions to Congress and the President opposing the deal with Mexico. With your help, we can keep President from ever sending the deal to Congress, we can get Congress to pass H.R. 858 to permanently ban it, and then our Social Security system will be forever safe from being raided by Mexicans.
http://www.conservativeusa.org/mexico-socsec.htm

[kinghorse]

oh please. Mexico will be the 51st through 58th states some day soon. Sooner the better I say. We need the low wage worker base to keep social security solvent.

[Miss Marple]

Won't they have to have PAID INTO Social Security first? And won't the infusion of Social Security money paid by workers now help the current system? And won't those who worked here illegally have to offer some proof that they worked here? And should they have proof that they worked here, won't that give the government evidence against those who employed them illegally?

[Hostage]

It seems obvious that the President and the Speaker are at odds with one another. And it seems therefore that the President will not be sad if the Republican House Majority is lost.