David Leopold:
Well, it’s, yes, a good question.
Look, immigrants pay roughly $25.7 billion every year in Social Security taxes. So let’s start there. What is the object here? What is the — what is the gain the administration is going to get by taking that kind of money out of the Social Security system every year?
What the administration is doing is it’s doing in other areas is, it’s weaponizing — it’s weaponizing Social Security. It’s weaponizing it against immigrants. And it’s an invasion of privacy. Don’t think that it’s going to stop with immigrants’ Social Security numbers. They’re going to be going through — government bureaucrats going through a Social Security system that has all of our numbers in there and all of our privacy information and all of our data.
And this comes at a time when our seniors — our seniors are terrified. Because of the cuts that are coming to the Social Security Administration and other administrations — other agencies within the federal government, they’re terrified they’re not going to be getting their benefits, and with good reason.
And now they’re going to go in and they’re going to invade privacy? And we know, we know that mistakes are going to be made. What’s going to happen when American seniors start losing their benefits because they get improperly put into what they call the death row or the death registry or whatever they call it, and they stop getting their payments?
What’s going to happen when privacy is invaded and people’s information that they assumed that they, for generations, was going to remain private is opened up by government bureaucrats who are making mistakes and getting into the wrong files?