Part of the government doesn’t WANT the illegals to be deported. One reason.
They are contributing huge amounts of money to the SS system without the SSA being obligated to give them benefits. As of now anyway.
From a Washington Times article, March 29, 2007
..In 2004, “uncredited earnings” — Social Security tax payments that can’t be matched to valid Social Security numbers — totaled $65 billion — about 10 percent of the program’s total income. The amount of uncredited earnings stood at $301.8 billion in 1999, but had grown to $585 billion by 2004, according to the Senior Citizens League report. ...
“They are contributing huge amounts of money to the SS system without the SSA being obligated to give them benefits.”
A LOT of them are in the “underground economy” as day laborers, masons, carpenters, etc. and the employers give them cash.