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I disagree that they have excellent stats. There are huge numbers of illegals who are outside of these stats. They’re off the books completely and no one knows for sure how many there are. I see them around me all the time working for cash, paying no income or SS/Medicare taxes at all. Admittedly, I don’t know the percentage of illegals working for cash versus illegals working for companies that deduct for SS but I don’t think the dept of labor knows either.</p>
<p>If you estimate the number of undocumented illegals paying income/SS taxes who don’t end up receiving benefits (I suspect some do) as a percentage of the total workforce paying into it and then consider the amount the average illegal is paying on their generally not high wage versus the general population, I doubt that they’re a highly significant factor in the coffers of SS.</p>
<p>But this digresses from the OP’s topic.</p>