Illegal immigrants often use SS# cards that aren't theirs - not sure how those numbers get generated.... Can an illegal work a liftime on a fake SS# and not get retirment benefit or medicaid? Curious...seems I should know this answer. Seems the IRS should know too...or someone whose number is being used....
As a long time Arizona resident I am intimate with many of the issues raised lately around the recent immigration bill... I will withhold my options b/c they are many and varied.... and for the most part thoughtful and kind. I tend to view things under the ideology of "you are another myself" and measure political choices for humanity and individuals first. The tension in those evaluations is reflected in every choice we make...from leaving an empty milk carton in the frig...to what laws we support....
One question I have always had though, when various taxes are taken from the paycheck of an illegal immigrant using a "borrowed" social security number and paid to my government... who is the beneficiary for those payments? An example..One must reach a certain pay-in to qualify for social security at retirement...and if I have been using someone else's Social Security number how does that work? Is there someone out there watching their SS benefit statement increase and not report? Are these the SS# of dead people? Does the IRS not verify tax returns? It just seems to me - given the volumes of info the Gov has on us all - that it wouldn't be too difficult for the Feds to compare SS# pay-in and any anomalies...like toe "living" pay-in at remote addresses, or people in their 80's still paying on income, etc...
Anyone know or speculate how that happens? It has been a few decades (it seems anyway) that AZ employers have been required to get that dear SS#. Employers who take those SS# and supporting card at face value...they don't think it is their job to perform investigations of documents......
Today my daughter-in-law, who works at a fancy Mexican food restaurant reports that half the cooks will walk out on Friday... they earn about $15/hr - cooks are a decent paid job here (many people work in this city for minimum wage). They plan to move to less unfriendly environs, so I guess anywhere but here (I have been of the same mood for oh...20 years..haha - it's not the desert - that's beautiful - it's everything else).
will they leave? Estimates are as many as 500,000 still left in the area employed. Many, many immigrants (legal and not) left with the bust...when the money dried up they were the first to feel it...the guys on corners - sometimes in the hundreds - waiting for landscape and random labor jobs are pretty much gone.
Ok rambling - been a while since I bothered to post.... not very happy with what I am seeing politically and socially on so many levels.. and yet.... not so excited about joining the din of voices.... I have more questions than answers these days, and a sense of misplaced trust...and I mean that with respect to all three branches of our Government.
oops sorry... I am focused on staying positive..
Where do those illegal immigrant tax dollars go and why can't we track phony or borrowed SS numbers? Just curious.
By the way... I don't think immigration is the problem .... everyone was OK with illegals when the money was rolling and State's could pay their bills.... things are tight now and they are looking for distractions from the real reason they blew their money, etc.... it isn't barefoot guys crossing the desert to work and send money home.....nope, it's folks like the employees of Blue, California..... It’s us guys... and our government’s bills could all be paid if we insist we get out of Afghan and Iraq.....fix the political process so that corporations aren't controlling everything and we as people actually have a voice again through our congress, etc... 100 senators for 350 million people.... and lobbies send how much on those 100 people a year?
Anyway.... AZ - Brewer...your problems aren't b/c of illegals....but all of it...at every level.....
on "cartels" etc..... these laws don’t address that....these aren't the people that will be calling the police or fire for help.....they don’t care about our laws....unless, haha, drugs were legalized and regulated and taxed.....
The immigration problem and drug problem go to Mexico and corruption....and the US and in the end a money/complex around "Illegal drugs" that fuels many jobs.....not to mention protect those ever powerful pharmaceutical companies...
seems like, wee..... This immigration thing feels like a GOP social engineering thing to convince the uniformed and afraid that stepping on a brown immigrant will solve the problems we face....rather than allow their attention turn to the payola and incompetence of the GOP.....
sorry about typos I can't find my glasses and if I re-read this I probably won't post!
Gracias!
Ok I did a spell check at lest sorry such little attention and thank you for your time.