Posted on 06/11/2003 8:06:08 AM PDT by Mark Felton
WHEREAS the Bush Administration plans to give away at least 345 billion dollars of Social Security money...to be used to pay lifetime benefits to any Mexican citizen who has worked in the United States...legally or illegally, living in the United States or not...
Read and Sign the Petition Today!
— Great Opportunity to Reduce Numbers —
A superb bill, which would "effect a moratorium" on many categories of immigration and set strict limits on others, was introduced by House Immigration Caucus Chairman Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO).
H.R. 946 would reduce legal immigration from an average of over 1 million per year (1.5 million were admitted in 2001!) To about 300,000 per year for 5 years. Since the legal immigration flow is more than twice the estimated annual illegal immigration flow of 500,000, if passed this bill would reduce the total flow by about half.
This opportunity to push a moratorium bill is not to be missed because it addresses legal immigration across the board (and not just a few categories–an approach which plays right into the opposition's hands).
Pushing a moratorium is critical because it:
1. Increases the pressure to reduce all immigration numbers.
2. Increases the pressure on Congress to stop bad bills such as the proposed bill granting Social Security benefits to illegal aliens.
3. Helps resist illegal alien amnesty bills. Immigrant admissions of any kind serve as a magnet for more family members to come illegally.
4. Increases our National Security: Consider that the National Commission on Terrorism said, "The massive flows of people across U.S. borders make exclusion of all foreign terrorists impossible". (June 2000) Reducing numbers is essential to ensuring National Security.
5. Is another tool to stop the de facto "stealth" amnesty of illegals being pushed by the Bush administration and Mexican officials through the acceptance of matricula ID cards.
(Excerpt) Read more at balance.org ...
President Bush is for this?????
The foreign, alien, non-citizen workers did not "pay into" the Social Security system. Yes, they paid what is called Payroll Taxes (FICA, etc). They did not pay into a pension. Payroll Taxes are immediately spent by the current recipients of Social Security and Medicare. You do not pay into a system and carry an account. When you go on Social Security you are receiving the Payroll Taxes confiscated from the paychecks of the current workforce. Paying payroll taxes DOES NOT entitle you to later receive a portion of the taxes collected from the workforce.
If I worked a few years in France and returned to the USA I would not expect to receive any benefits of their socialist system when I hit 65 decades later.
Yes, it was one item of discussion with Fox many months ago. There was initially a firestorm from conservatives but Bush is unmoved and is waiting for things to cool off before proceeding.
God help our state if this treason continues!!
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No it does not. If you prefer a more credible source, how about Fox News: "The Bush administration has reportedly completed a draft of a treaty between the U.S. and Mexico that will give the Mexican government at least $345 billion in Social Security payments for Mexicans who have worked in the U.S. legally and illegally."
Of course, it's no secret that this administration has been all but encouraging illegal immigration from Mexico. This is one area that has exposed the administration's outright lying, as when Ashcroft claimed the power to indefinitely detain illegal Haitian immigrants who themselves do not pose a threat to national security, for the supposed reason of discouraging illegal immigration. Here they are encouraging it on one end, and then using the problem they create as an excuse for a power grab.
This country has been raped by millions of illegal aliens. Frankly, I don't give a damn what's unfair anymore. They have no respect for our laws, they have invaded our country. The American people have been brutalized by this epic attack on our sovereignty.
I am sick of foreign nationals. I don't give a damn where they are from. Too many Americans are out of work, the economy is in a ditch, and with the amount of people outside this country that hate our guts, we ought to reform our legal immigration policies immediately!!!!
Enough of this immigration insanity!
Are you sure about that ? I am a foreign national working in USA, I get a Statement of Benefit from Social Security every year. I have a social security number and the benefit sheet lists the benefits that I will get when I retire.
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