[FITZ]

who at one time WORKED in this country

What about all those AMERICANS who only worked in this country who never get Social Security but paid into to it all their lives and are still paying into it but didn't retire at 62? My Dad can't get "his" Social Security because he's still working.

Social Security is a welfare program ---not a bank account that you put your money in and take your money out. We can't provide welfare for the whole world just because they might want in on it ---it would really be better for the Mexicans if they're so foolish to make their own Social Security program if they want one.

[justshe]

And how do the Mexicans differ from other legal aliens around the world who are collecting SS benefits because they paid into the system while working in the USA?

And where did I say that SS was a bank account? And WHY should your father collect from a program that was supposed to 'ease' or supplement his retirement IF HE HASN'T retired yet?