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re: those that are paying taxes is patently FALSE for a good portion of those illegal immigrants. Those that are paying taxes are using STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, committing yet ANOTHER CRIME of identity
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The fact that MANY millions of illegal immigrants are paying taxes is patently TRUE....and most are using fictious SS numbers, not stolen numbers.
The SS "earning suspense file" is now at nearly $200 billion.
From testimony of the SS actuary:
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Since the beginning of the program in 1937 and through Tax Year (TY) 2003, the most recent year for which data is available, the suspense file has grown and now contains about 255 million W-2s. While the suspense file represents an accounting of unassociated wage items, the taxes on these wages have been paid into the trust funds. In TY 2003, $7.2 billion in payroll taxes were credited to the Trust Funds based on wage items placed in the suspense file. This represented approximately 1.3 percent of total payroll taxes credited to the Trust Funds....
As of October, 2005, approximately 8.8 million W-2s (3.5 percent of the total) representing $57.8 billion in wages remained in the suspense file for TY 2003.
It is important to note that wages that remain in the ESF include wages paid to individuals who were not and may not be currently authorized to work in the U.S. Thus, these individuals have actually paid into the Social Security Trust Fund and are unable to receive benefits.
http://www.ssa.gov/legislation/testimony_072506.html
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There is no hard evidence, but the SS Admin estimates that MANY of these "unidentified" SS wage earners who end up in the suspense file are "undocumented aliens".
I dont condone the act of using fake (not stolen) SS #s, and I blame the employer (who turns a blind eye) as much as the employee...but there is NO denying that illegal aliens contribute $billions to Social Security and Medicare.