Social Security
Even the relatively tiny positive effect [illegal aliens] currently have on SS and Medicare is partly due their inability to collect benefits. If legalized, they would represent a long-term drain because illegals overwhelming have little education, and thus have low average incomes. Because Social Security pays more generous benefits to low-income workers relative to what they pay in, legalization would add millions of low-income workers to the system, further straining it.
Them That Has Gets: Aliens and the Social Security System
Two different classes of aliens interact inequitably with our Social Security system
Topics: Social Security
As We Face a "Fiscal Cliff" Let's Close Immigration-Related Tax Loopholes
Topics: Tax Fraud, Social Security