Social Security Administration: Social Security Number

Social Security And Medicare Dept: Deducted from their wages are social security and Medicare. The money helps pay Americans social security and medicare costs. But the illegal immigrants who earn that money have no right to these benefits and likely never will, according to Montreal Gazette. The social security administration knows the numbers are duplicates, could easily track down the illegal workers, but they don t. The reason is simple. Despite all the political posturing over deportation and stronger borders, few politicians want the flow to dry up or the illegals to leave. It s bad for business and wASHINGTON Each week in America millions of illegal immigrants toiling as construction workers, farm labourers, cleaners, garbage sorters and a host of other low paying, bottom-of-the-scale jobs are paid with a company cheque. Employers hire these workers after they present a social security number, which inevitably is a duplicate of a number that belongs to an American citizen. The employers are not obliged by law to verify them, so they don t. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.