not so long ago they turned up a new army manual pertaining to the proper method of refugee camp construction and it admonished that an important part of in-processing was meticulous recording of all SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS.
“Refugees”
Really...????
June 29, 2004:
http://www.ssa.gov/international/Agreement_Texts/mexico.html
I haven’t looked to see if Congress bothered to vote.
but according to AARP, you can be a non-citizen and still have a SS account, so maybe they did?:
http://www.aarp.org/work/social-security/info-06-2012/social-security-card-non-citizen.html