Speech #1100055578

If were 100 miles away over your States border. we cant go to the other State and go in that facility. but someone who has snuck into this country from thousands of miles away or from the other side of the world can get a tuition break. and it is paid for by us. the taxpayers. They get inState tuition. even though they come from a faroff country and have come here illegally. while if we try to go to another State we have to pay higher rates. Now the legislation does ban some illegal aliens from being able to collect Social Security. and thats true. But we know that the President of the United States. for example. has actually already made an agreement with Mexico. although it was a secret agreement in order to provide what they call a totalization agreement. which will permit illegals from Mexico who have been working in the United States to obtain Social Security benefits for the work that they did here illegally. but thats just for the people from Mexico. Now this bill says that others outside of the totalization agreement wont get Social Security benefits for the work they did while they were here illegally. but theres a big loophole in the bill. Any illegal who overstayed a visa but was issued a Social Security number will be allowed to obtain credit for the work they did illegally. In other words. if someone was here illegally. overstayed a visa. while they were here on the visa. if they got their Social Security number. they will then be permitted to get credit for what they did when they were working here illegally because they then had their Social Security card. We know that between. as I said. 4 and 5 million illegal aliens are people who entered here on a visa and then did not go home. This loophole would allow these millions of people who broke the law to work in this country to collect Social Security. At the very time when we are rightfully worried about the future solvency of Social Security. we will allow those who violated their visas to obtain the fruit of their illegal labors. They will be permitted to have Social Security. This is an incredible injustice to our seniors who depend on that system and should not worry about what amounts to basically this theft of Social Security benefits. Now. let us note that there are many people trying to suggest that illegal immigrants actually help Social Security. People actually said this here in Washington. Well. lets note this. More than half of the illegal immigrants in our country work for cash under the table. Now. of those people who are working for cash. are they helping our Social Security system? Were being told that illegals working here help our Social Security system. So these illegal immigrants. because theyre being paid under the table. half of them are paid under the table. they do not pay into the Social Security system. And since they are paid cash. the employers do not pay. Not only does the worker not pay his contributions to the Social Security system. hut the employer isnt paying his portion into the Social Security system. So a negative effect is this job. if you look at it even beyond that. is that this job is a job that could be filled by an American citizen or a legal immigrant. but now that jobs been taken by an illegal who is not doing anything to pay into the Social Security system. The legal immigrant or the American citizen. whose job that would be if that person wasnt there. would be paying into the system. So Americans are losing jobs to illegals who arent paying their fair share into the Social Security system. How does that help the Social Security system?