Doesn't matter.. More people paying into SS isn't the answer. It's a ponzi scheme that's doomed to failure at some point.
All that's left to argue is when.
And you don't think the guy was planning to use his fake Social Security number to take out "his" money eventually? And very likely was already bringing in elderly relatives also obtaining fake numbers to use to make claims. I know Hispanic American who had their numbers stolen from them and used by others and then had all kinds of trouble getting it straightened out. Stolen and fake Social Security numbers are a felony crime if an American citizen does it ----these people aren't above the law.
and a portion of our tax dollars goes to provide them with free medical care and other benefits
Out here in the west most of the drug smuggling is done by mexicans. In looking at the arrest reports in my local newspaper, most of the people getting arrested are mexicans. They cost us much, much more than they ever produce. I'll take my chances with a bunch of unemployed mexicans running around the US. They are ILLEGAL aliens and need to be deported with no delays. In regard to resturant jobs, let american citizens decide if they want to work in resturants. Jobs are hard to come by these days.
Restaurant jobs? Please elucidate us on how illegal aliens pay Social Security....and how they save America money by free schooling, free school meals, free healthcare and free prison stays.
Those minor details disregarded you do have a point.
Many restaurant jobs used to be filled by high school students who worked after school on on weekends. I was one of them. These jobs were also sometimes filled by high school graduates who were working their way through college, or by individuals supporting themselves with their first job after moving out of their parent's house.
Not as if you made a point, but the Mexican in the article was working as a welder, not as a busboy. Anyway, this is less about Mexicans stealing US jobs than it is about a border being wide open after we were attacked by people allowed in due to lax immigration standards.
No, what would be good for national security would be if the illegal mexicans (employed or not) were escorted out and the borders secured.
They are here illegally. That is what is relevant. Not what jobs they are doing, not what they are paid for said jobs. I don't give a crap if employers have to pay double to have tomatos harvested by US citizens, with consumers in turn paying higher prices. That is not the issue.
Economic arguments are straw men. Border security and US law are the issues here.