(Note: I'm fluent in both written and spoken Spanish and regularly read
Spanish-language newspapers and view Spanish-language television, both of
which media are overwhelmingly used by ilegal aliens in the USA. For years
now both the print and electronic Spanish-language media, to an even much
greater extent than the nation's English-language media, have been
chock-full of ads and commercials for lawyers mining the illegal alien
hordes for work-injury and disability cases. Illegal aliens are a GOLD MINE
for such lawyers as they are of the same greedy, dishonest
"I'll-get-money-any-way-I-can-screw-everyone-else" mindset.
In addition, when reading the following know that economists have already
shown that, far from subsidizing the Social Security retirements of
Americans, ILLEGAL ALIENS OF YOUNGER-THAN-RETIREMENT AGE WILL IN FACT BE
**DRAINING** THE SS SYSTEM AS THEY BEGIN MAKING MEDICAL DISABILITY CLAIMS,
SAYING THAT THEIR ILLEGAL EMPLOYMENT AS ROOFERS, DAY LABORERS, DRYWALL
INSTALLERS, WAREHOUSE WORKERS ETC. FOR QUICK-BUCK-ARTIST U.S. CONTRACTORS
HAVE LEFT THEM WITH BAD BACKS AND OTHER SUCH DISABLING WORK-RELATED
INJURIES.
One has to wonder whether it isn't Bush and the GOP's (who've proposed
risking U.S. workers' Social Security contributions in the stock market)
actuall INTENTION to destroy the Social Security system this way.
-- GWA)
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Illegal Workers Could Claim Nearly $1 Trillion In Social Security
(Report by The Senior Citizens League previously published in USA TODAY,
and On CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight")
[The Senior Citizens League's] TSCL's efforts to publicize the cost of
Social Security benefits based on illegal work, as well as a related
totalization agreement with Mexico, are making some Members of Congress
think twice about the impact of illegal immigration on Social Security.
Senator Arlen Specter (PA) was recently reported in USA TODAY as saying
that immigration has replaced Social Security as the "third rail" of
politics ¡X an issue so incendiary most politicians are afraid to touch it.
A new estimate released by TSCL found that a loophole in current law
would allow 2 million aliens to claim full Social Security benefits based
on illegal work. By 2040 the government would pay out more than $966
billion in Social Security. USA TODAY reported "Shannon Benton of the
Senior Citizens League, a group representing retirees, told a House of
Representatives subcommittee last week that the bill ¡¥will result in
significant damage to the already strained Social Security Trust Fund.'"
TSCL's $966 billion cost estimate is based on Social Security numbers
(SSNs) issued to aliens prior to January 1, 2004. Current law requires
only aliens who receive Social Security numbers issued on January 1, 2004
or thereafter to have legal work authorization at some point in order to
file a claim for benefits. Aliens who received SSNs prior to January 1,
2004 and who worked illegally using those numbers can file a claim for
benefits without ever having received legal work authorization. In other
words, they may claim benefits based entirely on illegal work.
Prior to January 1, 2004, the Social Security Administration issued 7
million SSNs that bear the inscription "NOT VALID FOR EMPLOYMENT."
Individuals who received such numbers were found to have a valid reason to
have an SSN (for example they may have been eligible for public benefits),
but those SSNs were not authorized for work in this country.
Nevertheless, the numbers have been widely abused and last year the
Social Security Administration's Inspector General, in a little-noticed
audit, said that the largest employer of those non-work SSN illegal workers
are federal and state government agencies. TSCL first reported this
information in the November/December 2006 issue of The Social Security and
Medicare Advisor article,"Failure to Enforce Immigration Laws Affects Your
Benefits" http://www.tscl.org/NewContent/102774.asp. When CNN's Lou Dobbs
learned about the Inspector General's audit from Representative Steve King
(IA), Shannon Benton was invited to appear on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight."
Legalization of illegal immigrants appears to have proven too hot for
Congress to handle for the moment, but the problem of aliens receiving
Social Security benefits based on illegal work continues under current law.
TSCL is calling on Congress to close the loophole, and endorses the "No
Social Security for Illegal Immigrants Act of 2007" (H.R. 736), introduced
by Representative Dana Rohrabacher (CA). The legislation would close the
loophole by excluding earnings of any wages for unauthorized work.
Sources: "Social Security, Immigration Entwined In Debate," Kathy Kiely,
USA TODAY, June 27, 2007. "Employers With The Most Wage Items In The
Non-Work Alien File," SSA Office Of The Inspector General, June 2006,
A-08-05-15138. "Shannon Benton On CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight," CNN, June 28,
2007.
Source:
http://www.seniorsleague.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1808&Itemid=96
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PLEASE EMAIL THESE LINKS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW:
"The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave" by Heather MacDonald
www.City-Journal.org/html/14_1_the_illegal_alien.html
www.PredatoryAliens.com
www.ImmigrationsHumanCost.org
www.DayLaborers.org
www.Alipac.us
www.ImmigrationWatchdog.com
www.AmericanPatrol.com
www.EscapingJustice.com
www.MothersAgainstIllegalAliens.org
See the COLOSSAL costs of illegal aliens to the American taxpayer:
www.ImmigrationCounters.com
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"Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada"
("For The Race everything, for those outside The Race nothing")
-- Motto of MEChA, one of the nation's largest government-funded
organizations with cells on high school and college campuses across the USA
(Note: Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez says he "used to be" a member)
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¡§How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico¡¨
By John Dillin
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html
Excerpt:
¡§General Eisenhower ... quoted a report in The New York Times,
highlighting one paragraph that said: ¡¥The rise in illegal border-crossing
by Mexican 'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than
1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation
in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters
of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal
Government ..."
¡§Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower's first attorney general, said the
president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took
office.
¡§America ¡¥was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large
scale,¡¦ Mr. Brownell said. ¡¥When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of
thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint.¡¦"
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Just two of MANY American cops murdered by illegals:
www.DeputyDavidMarch.com
www.KrisEggle.org
"Unfortunately, the majority of illegal aliens who are here are engaged
in criminal activity. Identity theft, use of fraudulent Social Security
numbers and green cards, tax evasion, driving without licenses represent
some of the crimes that are engaged in by the majority of illegal aliens on
a daily basis merely to maintain and hide their illegal status. In
addition, violent crime and drug distribution and possession is also
prevalent among illegal aliens. Over 25% of today's federal prison
population are illegal aliens. In some areas of the country, 12% of
felonies, 25% of burglaries and 34% of thefts are committed by illegal
aliens."
-- Testimony of District Attorney John M. Morganelli before the House
Subcommittee on Immigration, Border, Security and Claims [Note: 99% of
warrants for murder in Los Angeles, California -- the USA's 2nd
most-populous city -- are for illegal aliens]
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of
men."
-- Samuel Adams
"¡§All great truths begin as heresies.¡¨
-- Former Democrat Governor of Colorado Richard Lamm, official of
Defend Colorado Now, a movement opposed to illegal immigration
and public services for illegal aliens
WHAT WOULD THE FOUNDING FATHERS DO? ...
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is
then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of
self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government ... The
citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert,
without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair ...
The natural strength of the people in a large community, in
proportion to the artificial strength of the government, is greater than in
a small, and of course more competent to a struggle with the
attempts of the government to establish a tyranny ... the people, without
exaggeration, may be said to be entirely the masters of their
own fate.
-- Alexander Hamilton
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain
occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any
government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
-- Thomas Jefferson
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government
by the majority who participate.
-- Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to
remain silent.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people
alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
-- Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of
principle, stand like a rock.
-- Thomas Jefferson
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
-- Thomas Jefferson
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to
keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves
against tyranny in government.
-- Thomas Jefferson
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show
them we can fight like men also.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks
and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will
delineate and define you.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not
constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their
gains.
-- Thomas Jefferson
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied
corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial
by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
-- Thomas Jefferson
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties
than standing armies.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own
kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the
rich on the poor.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government
those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations,
perverted it into tyranny.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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