4 Jan 2025 7:01 am
Why do demonrats so strongly support illegal aliens in the work force keeping wages artificially low?Blackvegetable » 03 Jan 2025, 2:18 pm » wrote: ↑ Unauthorized workers contribute taxes but are ineligible for benefits
In 2022, unauthorized immigrants contributed $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, typically by working under borrowed or fraudulent Social Security numbers. Unauthorized immigrants, however, are ineligible to claim Social Security benefits.
Bottom Line
Although there is no plausible scenario under which additional net immigration would entirely resolve Social Security’s impending insolvency, immigration has significant interactions with the program’s financial health and plays an important role in the U.S labor market to offset the continued decline in birth rates.
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