– Triple Security Threat from Mass Immigration –

Social Security, National Security, and Health Security

Bush Administration Plans to Give Illegal Aliens Our Social Security Dollars!

– Aliens Could Count Time Worked in Mexico and Elsewhere –

PLAN GOES INTO EFFECT UNLESS CONGRESS VOTES IT DOWN

Although our Social Security system is projected to be insolvent in just a few years, the Bush administration is publishing a plan to give American Social Security benefits to illegal aliens?!

Fortunately, we CCN activists have a remedy.

The Social Security Administration and the State Department have drafted what they are calling a Totalization Agreement that provides American Social Security benefits for former legal and illegal residents of the United States now residing in about 20 different countries. The Agreement would allow these aliens to count time worked abroad in determining the amount of their U.S. Social Security payments.

For example, the proposed Totalization agreement in the works for Mexico could give away as much as 345 billion in Social Security benefits in the next 2 decades to millions of illegal immigrants who worked in the U.S. This proposal differs from the Totalization Program already in place which restricts Social Security benefits only to those people who worked legally in the U.S. for at least 10 years.

Worse yet, the Totalization Agreement with Mexico doesn't have to get voted in by Congress! As long as Congress doesn't vote it down, the program could become law, allowing illegal aliens from Mexico the same benefits under Social Security as U.S. citizens.

Fortunately, there is a solution to save our decades of hard earned Social Security benefits for Americans. H.R. 489, the Social Security for Americans Only Act of 2003, introduced by Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), and several cosponsors. "As the system braces for a steep increase in those who will be drawing from the Social Security trust fund, it make no sense to expand it into a global welfare system," said Representative Paul. We agree.

Through the Front Door – National Security and Health Security Threats

During recent "Elevated" level Security Alerts our government, while using the draconian Patriot Act to scour for possible terrorists living here, has continued to allow potentially dangerous individuals to enter this country under our lax immigration policies.

The basic problem is the overwhelmingly large numbers. Annually, 1.2 million legal immigrants enter this country, making extensive background and health checks by the Bureaus of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS, formerly the INS) nearly impossible. As the National Commission on Terrorism found in June of 2000,

"The massive flows of people across U.S. borders make
exclusion of all terrorists impossible."

Despite the Commission's conclusion, the ‘massive flows' continue. And you, our members, already know mass immigration produces wage depression, increasing unemployment, increasing taxes, environmental degradation, and infrastructure burdens, yet Americans now face increasing national and health security threats.

The security threats were already apparent -- earlier this year non-Mexican terrorists were apprehended as they headed toward the Mexican Border. Intended or not, immigration in huge numbers threatens national security through long-term overuse of natural resources, training the "built" infrastructure, and now via disease.

Health Threats Increasing

Health threats from mass immigration:

1.) The Center for Disease Control reported that the incidence of Tuberculosis among the foreign-born has increased from 22% of the national total in 1986 to 46% in 2000 and that newer strains of TB are antibiotic resistant.
2.) The CDC has also declared that the only cases of measles in the U.S.A. since 1998 are in immigrants.
3.) And our porous borders leave us increasingly vulnerable to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). For example, a New England woman recently brought home an adopted one-year-old child from China who showed much more severe signs of Respiratory distress. The child's adoptive aunt also came down with the disease while everyone aboard the plane was exposed to the virus.

But properly screening 1.2 million prospective permanent legal immigrants (out of, perhaps, three or four times the number of applicants) is not feasible for the BCIS.

Why, indeed, are our levels of immigration higher than ever before in our history in light of all these threats? The BCIS and BCIE (Bureau of Customs and Immigration Enforcement) cannot function correctly given the massive flow.

The Solution

Fortunately, enactment of two great bills would substantially reduce these threats. Pushing a moratorium is essential because we must send a clear message to Congress: No more mass immigration.

A Moratorium Bill, The Mass immigration Reduction Act of 2003, H.R. 946, sponsored by Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), would substantially reduce the numbers. It would enact "a moratorium" on many categories of immigration and strictly limit others. On the other hand, bills pushing reductions in only a few categories play right into the opposition's hands.

And Congressman Ron Paul's bill would take care of the Social Security fiasco.

So write, fax, and telephone your Congressional Representative and Senators to cosponsor H.R. 946 with an amendment to reduce the amount of newly arriving immigrants from 1.2 million per year, to a more sustainable level of 100,000 for five years (the highest number which would allow the U.S. population to stabilize. CCN's Fact Sheet (enclosed) will help you make your points).

And urge your Representatives in Congress and Senators to Cosponsor H.R. 489, the Social Security for Americans Only Act of 2003, (Paul, R-TX) because:

1.) Our Social Security system is projected to be bankrupt in just a few years and does not need millions of additional beneficiaries contemplated in the Administration's plan;
2.) Social Security was designed to keep Americans out of poverty during retirement not illegal aliens;
3.) We should not be rewarding illegal aliens who have broken our immigration laws by giving them financial and retirement benefits. By rewarding them, the U.S. only encourages more illegal immigration.
4.) We should not become liable for Social Security payments that are tied to work done outside the United States.

Together, we can succeed just as we succeeded in beating back the amnesty bills three times in the last session of congress!

BUT we need your special contributions and gift memberships now more than ever. If you wish you may earmark you donations for one of these two campaigns. Just make your check payable to CCN and indicate in the memo section that it is for the "Moratorium Campaign" or "Social Security for Americans Only" campaign, or contribute securely online.