The US Senate, that exclusive club of 100, has passed, by 50-49, an amendment to their immigration bill which allows illegal immigrants to collect Social Security benefits on earnings they earned while they were illegal. From the article:

The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment — even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents.

More precisely, Sen. John Ensign (R- Nevada) offered a motion to strike the language from the bill under consideration; the net effect is the same: The U.S. Senate is condoning illegal behavior, as well as fraudulent/stolen documents, and proposes to recognize them as valid. Can this be happening?

From Villians Vanquished:

They’ve decided to ignore one illegal act and offer these folks the equivalent of amnesty for sneaking into the country illegally. But now, they are basically granting amnesty again, this time for the real felonies of Identity Theft and Forgery.

What’s more, they fail to bear in mind that multiple illegal aliens oftentimes appropriate the same stolen Social Security number. So now, my generation has absolutely no chance in hell of ever collecting a red cent from all of our legal contributions, because the system is going to be wide open to fraud and end up paying out to multiple parties for the same contributions. That “lockbox” is going to empty faster than a keg at a Packers’ tailgate party.

Well said, with a lot less cussin’ than I could have mustered at this point. Never mind current wisdom which says that a comprehensive immigration bill is unlikely to pass during this Congressional session; the brazen fact remains that 50 of 100 of those elected to the highest legislative office in the land are prepared to throw their constituents under the bus.

Remember this come November.
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1 – And, to incorporate the post title, check the anagram for Senator.

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