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Reject deal to reward illegal immigrants

Harold Peterson, Nashua
Published: Sunday, May. 22, 2005

Last June, the commissioner of the Social Security Administration entered into a Totalization Agreement with Mexico, which ensures that millions of illegal aliens will be entitled to receive Social Security benefits.

Once this agreement is presented to Congress by the president, Congress has 60 days within which to disapprove of it. Otherwise it automatically takes effect. It is likely to be submitted to Congress soon.

It is ludicrous that our Congress should ever conceive of a process in which something as radical as this could become effective without the Congress ever voting upon it, unless it was deliberately conceived in order to protect Congress from the understandably warranted criticism from the public in the event it was required to vote on such a matter.

One might conclude that all of the members of Congress are hiding behind the alleged threat of “personal accounts� in discussing Social Security, while being complicit in a conspiracy of adopting by silence this very real threat of totalization.

It is problem enough that we have the numbers of illegal aliens in our country, which we have, because of the failings of our government without compounding it by a further failing of our government to reward these same illegal aliens. This will have disastrous effects upon the rest of us who are law abiding. ...

Congress unfortunately has abandoned its primary responsibility of representing the people of the United States in directing its attention toward such issues as steroids in sports and the unfortunate Terry Schiavo matter rather than attend to the pressing issues of our unprotected borders. ...

For any illegal aliens who may have paid into the Social Security system, the inability to recover any of those payments is small penalty for their many years of illegal conduct.

We should all contact our senators and congressmen to urge them to disapprove of this agreement.