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发信人: vickistorm (vickistorm), 信区: Military
标 题: 奥巴马承诺给大赦的非法移民充分社会福利
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Nov 27 05:09:15 2014, 美东)
Illegal immigrants who apply for work permits in the U.S. under President
Obama’s new executive actions will be eligible for Social Security and
Medicare, the White House says.
Under the sweeping actions, immigrants who are spared deportation could
obtain work permits and a Social Security number, which would allow them to
pay into the Social Security system through payroll taxes.
No such "lawfully present" immigrant, however, would be immediately entitled
to the benefits because like all Social Security and Medicare recipients
they would have to work 10 years to become eligible for retirement payments
and health care. To remain qualified, either Congress or future
administrations would have to extend Obama's actions so that those
immigrants would still be considered lawfully present in the country.
None of the immigrants who would be spared deportation under Obama's
executive actions would be able to receive federal assistance such as
welfare or food stamps, or other income-based aid. They also would not be
eligible to purchase health insurance in federal exchanges set up by the new
health care law and they would not be able to apply for tax credits that
would lower the cost of their health insurance.
Benefits for illegal immigrants steps into murky waters. The White House has
said it will not grant federal assistance to the 5 million affected by
Obama’s executive actions. The Obama administration first denied younger
immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally as children access to health care
exchanges and tax credits in 2012, especially disappointing immigrant
advocates.
"They were specifically carved out of that, which is deeply unfortunate
because it cuts directly against the spirit" of the health care law, said
Avideh Moussavian, an attorney at the National Immigration Law Center. "They
should have had the opportunity to buy health insurance just like anybody
else."
Any immigrant who is lawfully present in the country with a Social Security
number would be entitled to Social Security and Medicare upon retirement
because they would have paid into the system, one official said.
Stephen Miller, a spokesman for Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a leading
Republican opponent of Obama's executive actions, said making immigrants
illegally in the U.S. eligible for Social Security and Medicare "is an
attack on working families."
"The amnestied illegal immigrants are largely older, lower-wage and lower-
skilled and will draw billions more in benefits than they will pay in," he
said.
Those seeking benefits would have needed to work for at least 10 years and
be of retirement age. Immigrants would also be eligible for survivor
benefits if the deceased worker had worked for 10 years and disability
insurance if they had worked 5-20 years.
A report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers this week concluded
that Obama's executive actions would expand the U.S. tax base because about
two-thirds of immigrants illegally working in the United States don't pay
taxes.
But many immigrants currently working illegally still pay into the Social
Security system because they have obtained an Individual Taxpayer
Identification Number. Moussavian said the number has declined because the
Internal Revenue Service has made it harder to apply for the identification
number.
The Social Security Administration estimates that out of about 11 immigrants
who either entered the U.S. illegally or have overstayed their visas
slightly more than 3 million paid payroll taxes of about $6.5 billion in
2010, with their employers contributing another $6.5 billion.
"It's one of many reasons why they would want to come forward," Moussavian
said. "Many immigrants have contributed enormously through payroll taxes and
income taxes and they go to programs that they can't currently access." |
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