How does illegal mexican figure they have put billions of dollars into our social security system?

Answer 1

they pay the FICA (medicare / SS) tax like everyone else.

Did you not know that? You should do some research before you form your opinion about something.

Answer 2

Illegal Mexican MIGHT be correct for once. I'll look into this a little more. Even still the money they pay here is offset GREATLY by the money they take out in the communities they live in. The cost is still far higher than the gain. Illegal is still illegal folks.

Answer 3

It is barely a drop in the bucket to what they cost, regardless of the suspension account, and now they are talking about giving those funds to illegals both under the Senate immigration bill and under an accord Bush signed with Fox that a Seniors group had to bring a lawsuit to get a copy of. Many more would become eligible than ever actually paid in, under survivor benefits, too. Plus, if they paid in it was under fake ID or stolen ID typically, and that is a crime. Giving benefits for this is outrageous.

(For those who overstayed and have their own visas and ID I'm a lttle bit less incensed.)

Answer 4

They haven't. Many deal drugs or work under the table for a living so how is social security collected from them? The ones who have someones SSN (which is a crime) and use it in order to get a job create problems bigger than their contributions can pay for. It is fact that they take more from our countries pockets than they put in so why is this even a topic of discussion? Our laws need to be enforced and no aid should go to people here illegally.

Answer 5

The Social Security branch has a little something called a suspense file. Read all about it:

http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/02/ss_secret_stash.html

http://www.globalaging.org/pension/us/socialsec/2005/illegal.htm

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,600123790,00.html

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/36662

Answer 6

Who knows? When are the American Congress and the American people going to realize that we are inviting poverty, diseases, drugs, and additonal crime into our country by allowing illegals to roam here freely, enjoying our lifestyles, whom many have worked hard for, and not paying their way? Our American benefits should be for LEGAL CITIZENS ONLY, and should not be for everyone who happens to flee to our country, because working in their own country is too hard. "Most" of our citizens have worked very hard to get where they are now, and it's not fair that illegals come here to "live the good life", while contributing very little. Most of them don't even care enough about America to learn it's language. Why should we cater to them? If they want to live, work, and enjoy life here, they should become legal, learn the language (as generations before them have) and be willing to earn/work for it. Just another proud American Citizen. Do you know what they do if you apply for benefits in another country? They hand you a map of the USA. So sad........ AMERICANS: STAND UP FOR YOURSELVES. KEEP AMERICAN LEGAL AND WORTH SOMETHING.

Answer 7

EDIT: I forgot to answer you question and had only commented on another answer by another user.

Are you referring only to illegal immigrants from Mexico or all illegals in general? Only about 50% of all illegal immigrants are from Mexico,.

I got the following info from social security adminstration reports from a few years ago, I couldn't find anything recent, but I guess this should help a bit

Report from 2002
"There are approximately 9.3 million individuals whose presence in the United
States is not authorized by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). About 6 million of this group
are working in the United States, including virtually all undocumented males (96
percent) and 60 percent of undocumented females. Approximately, 130 million individual
income tax returns are now filed each year. Therefore, the approximately
6 million undocumented workers constitute a significant portion of persons with a
potential income tax obligation.
Taxpayers who are undocumented workers have a strong incentive to comply with
the federal tax laws. Recently, for the first time in decades, the number of naturalized
immigrants has grown, from 6.5 million in 1990 to over 11 million in 2002
U.S. immigration procedures require applicants for visa status adjustment and naturalization
to provide tax information and demonstrate tax compliance as an indicator
of the applicant’s ethical conduct and his or her willingness and ability to meet
legal obligations.

IRS ITIN data demonstrates this strong tendency for compliance among ITIN
holders.26 Nearly 75 percent of the 3.1 million ITINs issued in calendar years 1998–
2001 have appeared on a tax return.
the IRS
has issued nearly 6.9 million ITINs—70% to Latino immigrants. Over a million taxpayers
reported wages of almost $7 billion and paid more than $305 million to the
IRS in 2001 using the ITIN as their identifier

Notwithstanding
the widespread exploitation suffered by immigrants, the output of goods
and services in the U.S. would be at least $1 trillion smaller than it is today without
the contribution of immigrant labor,8 and the civilian labor force would have only
grown 5 percent (versus 11.5 percent) between 1990 to 2001.9 The total net benefit
to the Social Security system if immigration levels remain constant will be nearly
$500 billion for the 1998–2022 period and nearly $2 trillion through 2072.10
It is for these reasons that a ‘‘delicate balance’’ must be struck between the U.S.
tax, social security and immigration systems, as National Taxpayer Advocate,

There are many reasons why the other 25 percent of ITIN holders may not have
filed tax returns including the fact that many immigrant workers earn such lowwages
that they may have fallen outside the requirement to report their income. In
2000, nearly half of all immigrant workers earned less than 200 percent of the minimum wage, compared with 32 percent of native workers.Additionally, many
workers find themselves in the precarious situation of not getting W–2s from their
employers and are afraid to ask for this information for fear of being fired.

Wages reported under an invalid name and/or SSN cannot be posted to a unique
earner's account and instead accumulate in SSA's Earnings Suspense File (ESF). As
of July 2002, the ESF contained approximately 236 million wage items totaling about
$374 billion related to Tax Years (TY) 1937 through 2000."

So, who knows for sure, you might want to contact the Social Security Administration directly:
Social Security has a toll-free number that operates from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday: 1-800-772-1213
If you still need additional help, you may write to the Office of Public Inquiries:
Social Security Administration
Office of Public Inquiries
Windsor Park Building
6401 Security Blvd.
Baltimore, MD 21235


wranglergal wrote:
"I dont give a ....well rats *** what they have put in I would gladly pay more for lettuce that I dont eat just to have Americans values brought back. "

LOL, what American values would that mean? Slavery, segregation.
Sorry, you can pay all you want but that won't happen again.
This is the closest you will get to those 'American values'. Modern day slavery, pay illegals as little as possible and make them work as hard as possible.
Modern day segregation is still all around us. Open your eyes.

So just be thankful that you're as close as to your 'American values' as you'll ever be.

Now, if you excuse me, I need to have my den fixed. I'll go drop by a HomeDepot and get me some cheap slaves...ahem...I mean cheap day-laborers to do it. :)

Answer 8

The illegals that use stolen social security numbers (identity theft) may have had a small amount automatically deducted from their paychecks, unless they claimed "EXEMPT," then they have paid nothing. A lot of them also believe that the sales tax that they pay on items they purchase counts. I seriously doubt that they would have put that much into ss considering their low wages and the tax bracket they are in.

Answer 9

Anything they put into SS is not our problem. They are the ones using fraud and false information and expect it to count as good and moral contribution. With them using so much fraud and their kids collecting benefits far out weighs any contribution they made when you include all the social programs they abuse. Any money in SS can be applied towards the huge medical bills they ran up.

Answer 10

Most don't pay taxes. Employers hire them to avoid paying taxes, workers comp, normal wages, etc..

Answer 11

the undocumented do pay taxes. For the businessmen who hire undocumented workers, know they are, its their fault.