Grassley on the fraud of S.2611

Reader N. writes:

Sen. Grassley voted for the 1986 bill, and seems to have learned something from the intervening years. Here is his list of the ten worst aspects of the Senate bill. They are all worth reading, here I excerpt two of them:

Security Clearances in 90 days—Under the bill, the Department of Homeland Security must perform background checks on illegal aliens in the United States. It also encourages the federal government to complete the background checks on 10 million illegal aliens in 90 days.

[Comment: this is clearly impossible to achieve and should be sufficient to derail the bill all by itself.]

Social Security to illegal aliens—Under the bill, illegal aliens are not prohibited from getting credit for the money they’ve put into the Social Security system if they’ve worked in the U.S. illegally. Illegal immigrants who paid Social Security taxes using a stolen Social Security Number did not do so with the expectation that they would ever qualify for Social Security benefits. (The Ensign amendment would have taken care of this, but it did not pass.)

[Comment: this should be renamed the “Identity Theft Reward Act of 2006”. Even Limbaugh has figured out that this is an outrage.]

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 25, 2006 11:30 AM | Send