Illegal Aliens Already Eligible for Retirement Programs

[Jeff]

Nice to know where our tax dollars are going , heck why come legal when your kids can apply for the American ppl. to pay your retirement



http://visiontoamerica.com/15059/illegal-aliens-already-eligible-for-retirement-programs/

[Marcus Aurelius]

Jeff, the article doesn't say what your thread title says...


The conservative Heritage Foundation’s $6.3 trillion cost estimate for the amnesty bill is overstated because taxpayers are already on the hook to pay most of the costs used to calculate that total, said Robert Lynch, an immigration expert at the progressive Center for American Progress.

Heritage’s comprehensive prediction that it will cost $6.3 trillion over 50 years to legalize 11 million undocumented immigrants includes the cost of putting all of them on national retirement programs, such as Social Security and Medicaid.
But current law allows American-born, adult children of illegal aliens to seek green cards for their parents and siblings, Lynch told a May 29 panel discussion hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center.


Is this cost too freaking high? Yup, damned right it is.
Should we be making people who essentially broke the law, butted into line in front of law abiding immigrants, legal? Nope, not in my humble opinion we shouldn't.
But this article doesn't support your thread title.

It says the cost to legalize 11 million includes the retirement programs, but that cost has not been incurred... yet. It will be if they keep going in this direction.

It also talks about legal citizens (born here to immigrant parents... another thing I personally wish wasn't the case) being able to apply for green cards for their parents. I could be mistaken, but I do not believe green card holders are already eligible for retirement programs.