robby
May 22, 2024, 5:58pm
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slumtrimpet:
I really do not understand this. You do not have to be a citizen to collect Social Security, unless the rules have changed drastically. Nor do you have to be a citizen to have a SS number. I had one for nearly 30 years before I broke down and became naturalized. And I know my dad never became a citizen and collected his SS.
Per the article, he was denied because he couldn’t prove to the SSA that he was in the country legally.
SunUp:
But he never thought he had to get a green card because he always thought he was a citizen.
He might still be able to establish citizenship if he can get evidence that his father lived in the U.S. for a decade before moving to Canada where he was born - or possibly within the decade before his birth, the wording seems a little ambiguous. It sounds from the article like he’s been able to find the documentation necessary, in which case he’ll be able to collect on his Social Security once the gears of the bureaucracy manage to grind into action.
But the irony remains.
This Trump-supporting rocket surgeon apparently never figured out that he was not a U.S. citizen despite the fact that he had a Canadian birth certificate and no naturalization documents.
His support for someone who despises immigrants and is against citizenship for Dreamers diminishes my sympathy for his situation.
As I wrote in the other thread when he came up:
This guy supports a former president and current presidential candidate who despises immigrants and is adamantly opposed to citizenship for Dreamers.
My sympathy for him is non-existent.
He seems like a perfect example of someone who supports the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party .
I think he should reap what he has sown and be prosecuted for voting illegally, followed by deportation after a period of incarceration.
(I also think that the laws regarding Dreamers and undocumented immigrant…