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Will become eligible for Social Security and, as with IRCA in 1986, Congress will mandate that they be credited with any contributions which they have made into the system.
So remind, how is it that illegal immigrants will have saved Social Security once you have changed their legal status?
The whole 'illegal immigrants are saving Social Security' only works for the case where you maintain the status quo.
by superscalar on Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 01:38:28 PM PDT
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children and they will pay into the system for many years, before receiving anything back. Some won't get anything back, because the leave or don't qualify. But they will pay for our retirement, whether you recognise it or not.
by immigradvocate on Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 01:43:24 PM PDT
Illegal immigrants make an average of $29,500 per year, and the graduation rate for Latinos (and face it the majority of illegal immigrants are from Mexico whether you choose to admit it or not) is less than 50%.
There are 700,000 children in the LA Unified School District, and less than half of them speak English. Yet somehow these children are going to pay for my retirement.
But they will pay for our retirement
Yeah, 'cause that guy with less than a ninth grade education who is roofing houses for 8 dollars an hour is not only going to be able to do that job for the next twenty years, he is suddenly going to get a raise to $45 per hour so as to be able to contribute enough to Social Security so as to pay for my retirement.
Think about steppin' away from that crack pipe for a couple of days.
by superscalar on Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 01:49:51 PM PDT
wide narrow
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