A co-worker was teling me just last week about at least one hundred people he knows from his homeland that are using our social security system for their benefit. He is from an African country. He said adult children who live and work legally in this country bring their elderly parents over to live. They help them get signed up for a social security card and medical card. Now, since their parents have litle to no knowledge of the English language, the children are put as co-signors on the social security checks. We all know how hard it is to survive on these checks so, what the elderly parents do is go back to their home country and the children cash the checksthat continue to come in and send the money to them, since the gov't was not told they left. The American dollar goes a looong way over there and they buy new houses and live like kings and queens on our money. This co-worker stated that many have told the INS/gov't but, they choose to turn their heads. This infuriates me!!
2007-07-15
08:37:30
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Jayme M
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Immigration