Comment: Trump's curbs on immigration threat to Social Security

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

By Ronald Brownstein / Bloomberg Opinion

President Donald Trump’s renewed crusade against legal immigration poses a direct threat to the long-term financial interests of the older white Americans who remain his core supporters.

Since the tragic shooting of two National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., last week by a man from Afghanistan, Trump has directed a fusillade of invective not only at undocumented immigrants, refugees and foreigners seeking asylum, but at all of the nation’s foreign-born population; nearly 52 million people. He has pledged to retrench multiple avenues for legal immigration and to remove an untold number of immigrants already in the U.S. through a process of “reverse migration,” a phrase associated with far-right European parties.

Trump’s call for such restrictions has a powerful appeal to his base voters’ cultural anxieties about a changing America. (Majorities of Republicans and Trump voters tell pollsters they believe the large number of immigrants admitted to the U.S. in recent years threatens the nation’s traditional values and customs.) But seriously reducing, much less reversing, immigration to the U.S. directly threatens the economic interests of those same voters.

If Trump succeeds in slashing legal immigration over the long term, he will virtually guarantee future cuts in Social Security and Medicare, the social safety net programs for the elderly that are funded by payroll taxes on workers.

https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-trumps-curbs-on-immigration-threat-to-social-security/

[underpants]

1. A very imposing fact I remember from the 90%

This was when Clinton was convinced to shut down the border or at least more than it was. This lead to the explosion in number of undocumented. Instead of one member of a family coming here, earning money to send home, and then returning after 3-6-12 months they brought the whole family.

They’re here to work which means they pay SS taxes. At the time it was estimated that the undocumented were funding 2-4% of SS ABD would never file for benefits.

[CousinIT]

2. I have been SCREAMING about this since that shit got re-elected. Dems have said NOTHING about it.

NOTHING.

And the media won't talk about it either.

THIS IS VITAL INFORMATION THAT AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW!!

[slightlv]

3. I wish this country would open an office that would help people

get OUT of this country that truly want to leave, but don't have the millions necessary to do it. He wants to decrease the "taking" population? Throwing out all the immigrants won't do it... unless he throws out the rest of us, too. We're ALL immigrants to this land! And I, for one, am full well tired of it. The last article I read on how they're trying to disenfranchise women from the vote, which I've been yelling about for years, was the last straw. Even when you yell continuously about what's coming down, deaf ears are turned towards you. I'm tired of stupidity.

[CousinIT]

4. The REAL "takers" are the billionaires and big corporations, not everyone else. n/t

[slightlv]

5. This x1000!