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    Measure Bars Migrants from Social Security Pay

    http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/ ... ndc26.html

    Measure bars migrants from Social Security pay
    Jun. 26, 2005 12:00 AM

    The House on Friday adopted, with no objections, a measure sponsored by Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., to block Social Security payments for possibly millions of undocumented immigrant workers in the United States.

    "I am proud that a unified House stood with me to declare our determination that illegal aliens will not plunder Social Security funds that are intended solely for retired and disabled Americans," Hayworth said in a statement.

    The Hayworth language, attached to the spending bill for the federal departments of Labor, Education and Health and Human Services, and related agencies, prohibits the Social Security Administration from using any of the bill's funding for benefit payments under a totalization agreement with Mexico that are "inconsistent with the U.S. law that bars such payments to illegal aliens."

    A totalization agreement eliminates the need to pay Social Security taxes in both countries when U.S. companies send workers to the other country (and vice versa) and protects benefit eligibility for workers who divide their careers between the two countries.

    Not a government
    The Senate Republican Policy Committee chaired by Rep. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., on Wednesday issued a report about why the U.S. government should not agree to recognize a "race-based government" of the nation's 400,000 Native Hawaiians in the same way it recognizes American Indians and Native Alas- kans.

    The 13-page document, titled "Why Congress Must Reject Race-Based Government for Native Hawaiians," says the bill would promote "racial division and ethnic separatism."

    The report from the committee, whose role is to come up with GOP positions and arguments on issues, adds that Congress "should not be in the business of creating governments for racial groups that are living in an integrated, largely assimilated society."

    "If Native Hawaiians lived as Indian tribes, with separate and distinct communities with their own political entities, then the injury to the nation in recognizing them would be much less dramatic," Kyl's committee reports.

    "Federal Indian law should not be manipulated into a racial spoils system," the report states. "If Congress can create a government based on blood alone, then the Constitution's commitment to equality under the law means very little."

    The bill, which is to come up on the Senate floor soon, is sponsored by Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii. He and other proponents say it would correct longstanding injustices dating to the 1893 overthrow of the monarchy there and is necessary to fend off challenges to millions of dollars of federal funding to Hawaiian-only programs.

    Personal accounts
    Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., the fifth-ranking House leader, joined with senior members of the Ways and Means Committee at a news conference on Thursday to unveil a proposal to use Social Security's own surplus to open scaled-down private individual accounts for millions of Americans.

    "We all know that by spending the Social Security surplus year after year, Congress is stealing from our children and grandchildren," Shadegg said. "We are stealing from the future. We can do better."

    Republicans and Democrats have criticized Congress for spending the Social Security surplus, projected this year to reach about $170 million, on other federal programs. But the system is expected to stop taking in more than it collects by 2017.

    The bill unveiled Thursday, and supported by Shadegg, is a proposal by Rep. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., that would take the annual surplus and instead create voluntary personal retirement accounts to invest only in marketable Treasury bonds.

    Land swap
    Arizona Reps. Jim Kolbe, a Republican, and Raul Grijalva, a Democrat, on Thursday reintroduced their so-called Pima County Land Adjustment Act (HR 3051)

    The bill would exchange equal-valued private property for Bureau of Land Management lands, in a move described as a way to enhance research at the University of Arizona's Desert Research Laboratory and expand the Las Cienegas National Conservation area.

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    The Hayworth language, attached to the spending bill for the federal departments of Labor, Education and Health and Human Services, and related agencies, prohibits the Social Security Administration from using any of the bill's funding for benefit payments under a totalization agreement with Mexico that are "inconsistent with the U.S. law that bars such payments to illegal aliens."
    I am all for it if it really says what it proports to say.

    SAY NO TO THE TOTALIZATION AGREEMENT WITH MEXICO.
    IT STILL MUST BE APPROVED BY THE HOUSE ONCE SUBMITTED.
    http://www.alipac.us Enforce immigration laws!

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