The bill going through the Senate would facilitate that. Furthermore. many people who would be legalized under the several different proposals that are going around. including these ones that we are hearing in the Senate. the people that are coming here already and will come here under the system because it will attract many more illegals. these are mainly poor and unskilled workers. The fact is over half the illegal immigrants in this country do not have a high school education. The inconvenient fact is that Social Security pays out more benefits proportionately to lowerwage workers than to higherwage workers. A projection Ive seen from Social Security assumes that immigrants have the same general earning potential as nativeborn Americans. Well. thats obviously not true. So to bring in people with low education or little education. what were going to do in the long run is place the burden of about $100.000 per person in the long term on our Social Security system because they will collect that much more than they put in. especially if they come here when they are in their 50s. in the late 40s or 50s. In the long run. this will be a catastrophe for the Social Security systemn. And last and foremost in terms of Social Security. in 1986. after being told that it would only legalize about 1 million people. 3 million people were actually legalized. Three million illegal immigrants ended up being given amnesty. Thats back in 1986. 0l 2145 It is now 20 years later. The current illegal immigrant estimate ranges from 12 to 20 million people. I keep hearing the lowball. 11 million. Let me note the 20 million figure that I just suggested. that we have up to 20 to 25 million illegals in this country. this didnt come from a government source. it was from a private study that was conducted on the monies that were sent back as remittances to other countries.
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Generalization that illegal immigrants are mainly poor and unskilled workers with low education.