The first Baby Boomers are turning 60 this year, the living members of the 77 million Americans part of that generation are starting to retire.
We have aborted roughly 40 million Americans since 1970, we continue to do so at a rate of 1.5 million per year.
Here's a snippet from one of a group of studies conducted by the Population Reference Bureau titled Reports on America, published in May 2002; this particular segment called "Government Spending" touching on the upcoming problems faced by the Social Security Administration:
"Lee and Miller estimate that the country would need to admit an additional 5 million immigrants per year, quintupling the current level of immigration, in order to achieve long-term balance in the Social Security trust fund. A recent report from the United Nations Population Division reached a similar conclusion for European countries, announcing that even much larger migration flows than are currently permitted would not counterbalance the effects of population aging.To maintain the 2000 ratio between the working-age population (people between the ages of 20 and 64) and the older population (people ages 65 and older), the United States would need roughly 95 million more working-age persons in 2025, in addition to those already expected at current levels of immigration. In other words, if the entire working-age population of Mexico were to move to the United States in 2025, there still would not be enough people to restore the old-age dependency ratio of 2000. -- Source
So, we have the oncoming juggernaut of the Baby Boomer retirements, coupled with the ongoing and government protected genocide of the unborn in the name of "choice" creating a deficiency in the working age population's ability to maintain the Ponzi scheme known as Social Security afloat making it imperative for the US to repopulate itself from outside sources.
What we do know is that the American people will not tolerate an immigration policy that calls for immigration in the numbers cited by Lee's study, so what does the Federal government do instead?
They let just about the rigt number of people enter the country illegally, grant them amnesty, and let the cycle begin all over again.
The extra added bonus of course can be found in what the Social Security Administration calls the Earnings Suspense File.
For those of you who do not like that source, try this one.
Why do we have millions of illegal aliens in this country?
Look at this graph:
Starting in the late 1980's, the Social Security Administration received a flood of W-2 earnings reports with incorrect - sometimes simply fictitious - Social Security numbers. It stashed them in what it calls the "earnings suspense file" in the hope that someday it would figure out whom they belonged to.
The file has been mushrooming ever since: $189 billion worth of wages ended up recorded in the suspense file over the 1990's, two and a half times the amount of the 1980's.
In the current decade, the file is growing, on average, by more than $50 billion a year, generating $6 billion to $7 billion in Social Security tax revenue and about $1.5 billion in Medicare taxes.
In 2002 alone, the last year with figures released by the Social Security Administration, nine million W-2's with incorrect Social Security numbers landed in the suspense file, accounting for $56 billion in earnings, or about 1.5 percent of total reported wages.
Follow the money.