THE Mask He believes that “the Democratic propaganda machine has been triggered” to destroy it. “The main reason is that fraud on rights – including social security, disability, Medicaid – The fraud of rights to illegal aliens is what serves as a giant magnetic power to pull people from all over the world, “he said.

However, democrats have much better reasons to dislike Musk. Musk’s concern that Medicaid and other systems attract immigrants to the US is the least stupid. “It is obvious that you cannot have free immigration and a welfare state,” the economist said Milton Friedman. “If it is illegal, people who come do not qualify for welfare, do not qualify for social security, do not qualify for the other myriad benefits we give from our … left pocket in our right pocket,” he said. “If they do not qualify, they migrate to jobs,” he said.

Has anything changed about illegal US migration that can make Friedman’s defense less valid? Well, yes. One is that some democratic states have chosen to extend health care and food aid to unauthorized immigrants. Another is that there are now several millions of recent arriving immigrants in the US who have not come through traditional visa channels, but they are not exactly “illegal”. The milder term ‘no documents of immigrants’ is at least less accurate, given how many of these people have cards Social security.

Social Security Administration created the program Enumeration beyond entry During the first Trump governance, in October 2017, for people who were not already in the US and receiving work licenses from the Ministry of Interior. The idea was that because internal security had already controlled these people, they could skip a trip to their local social security office and save time and money of the service. Those other than the US in which the State Department grants a visa that allows them to work in the US can receive social security numbers through a similar program called ENMERATION AT ENTRY, which issued 224,000 social security numbers in the calendar year 2021 versus 364,000 for the ENMERATION ENMEND ENUMOND ENTER.

Who gets work licenses when already in the US? Those who apply for asylum, including people who crossed the border illegally or remained with short -term visas, can obtain work permits for 180 days.

Eligible for work are also about 1 million people from 16 countries who have been classified as temporary protected state in the US, as well as 532,000 from four countries temporarily added to the US list by the Biden government. Programs that the Trump government recalls or is intended to recall. It is also reported that the government is considering a substantial recall of many of the recently issued social security numbers.

The Social Security Service expanded the eligibility for the Enumeration Beyond Entry program in August 2021 to those who apply for a permanent stay and in April 2024 to those who apply for citizenship. In 2021, a social security official told Congress that these two changes “would automate the processing of about 1.3 million SSN demands a year”.

Doge has not yet provided evidence to prove that immigrants are responsible for significant right fraud. Taking this, there are many reasons to criticize the Biden government because it has allowed so many people to enter the US without prior permission – which eventually stopped doing around the middle of last year.

The head of the Social Security responsible service estimated in 2013 that unauthorized immigrants (and their employers) contributed about $ 13 billion a year to payroll taxes in 2010 and received about $ 1 billion per year. A 2015 study by a group of public health scholars found a similar pattern to Medicare. The Yale budget Lab He estimated this week that unauthorized immigrants paid $ 22 billion in federal income taxes in 2023, and they and their employers paid $ 44 billion in social security and medicare payroll taxes, although they did not try to calculate what they did.

Even those who have a temporary work permit will not necessarily receive back money that has put in social security and Medicare, because they generally have to work legally in the US for at least 10 years to meet the conditions.

This leaves the question to be deceived if they represent a drainage of federal, state and local government resources, for which the best answer seems to be probably not. In 2007, the Congress Budget Office He summed that “most efforts to assess the budgetary impact of immigration to the United States have concluded that, in the long run, tax revenue of all types created by immigrants – all of the categories – exceed the cost of the services they use.”

More recently, Alex Nowrasteh and Jerome Famularo of Liberty and in favor of the Cato Institute immigration came to the conclusion, after analyzing the data of the 2022 inventory office, that foreign immigrants consumed 54% less per capita in welfare benefits and rights by the rights of the US and the rights. 1% older and consumer citizens for Medicare. This worked by 21% less for immigrants overall. Interestingly, the removal of Nowrasteh and Famularo from it was that Congress would have to cut non -citizens from any welfare and rights, who estimated that they would save more than $ 109 billion per year in the federal government. “Instead of reaching precise mass deportations as a solution to fiscal issues,” they wrote, “the freer market, liberal and budgetary solution is to build a higher wall around the welfare state.”