Thread: No Social Security for Illegal Aliens

by Rep. Tom Feeney -
Posted: 01/18/2007

The U.S.-Mexico Social Security Totalization Agreement currently being drafted by the Social Security Administration is not far from implementation. After the current agreement is finalized, approved by the State Department, and signed by the President, Congress will have 60 days to pass a resolution of disapproval of the agreement. If Congress does not disapprove, it will automatically go into effect. Though the stated aim of the totalization agreement is to coordinate the Social Security programs of both countries to our mutual benefit, the actual advantages clearly lie in Mexico's favor.

Though there are no official statistics on how many Americans work and pay taxes in Mexico, there are most definitely far, far fewer than the 9.2 million Mexicans working in the U.S., approximately 69% of whom are illegal aliens. Though the Social Security Administration has asserted that the benefits accruing from this totalization agreement will only be available to those who have worked legally in the U.S., the Social Security Protection Act of 2004 they cite in support only applies from 2004 forward. In addition, this legislation would not apply to those who are working here now illegally but later gain legal status, as the new Democratic Congress and President Bush would like to see.

If the totalization agreement is allowed to go into effect through congressional inaction, the Social Security Administration says that 50,000 additional Mexicans would qualify for Social Security benefits in the first five years at a total estimated cost of $525 million. This number would not include family members waived in or the millions of illegal immigrants who may be granted amnesty. In that same time period, they stated that the agreement would only save U.S. workers and their employers $140 million, or an average of $28 million a year. Our existing 20 totalization agreements average savings of, per country, $40 million a year. Not only are the costs of this agreement almost four times the savings, it saves us $10 million less than the average agreement.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18998

The U.S.-Mexico Social Security Totalization Agreement---Sheer insanity.

Why is the Social Security Administration spending our time and money on this legislation? Fix the 'donut hole' allowance to insurance companies in the part D medication program and benefit American citizens!

The Mexican government's PARASITIC dependance on US tax money must stop now.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt