Legalization Won’t Save Social Security

Jena McNeill / May 18, 2009

Kiplinger has a post up today discussing the most recent attempt to paint an amnesty as an economic stimulus. This time the focus is on Social Security. Mark Willen argues that somehow this almost broke system would be saved if only we would bring the 11 million illegal immigrants here in the U.S. “out of the shadows” and make them legal. But this is not the right approach and would instead bankrupt the United States, leaving the Social Security system in a far worse condition.

It’s not that immigrants do not contribute to the economy, they certainly do. The problem is (more…)