By Steve Levy
We warned you over and over again that the treasonous betrayal of our national security by the Biden administration in opening our borders to up to 20 million illegal aliens was designed to get a new class of individuals dependent on the government and placed on the voting rolls.
Those opposing open borders were called conspiracy theorists, touting unfounded, hysterical accusations centered on nativism and anti-immigrant policy
Well, it looks like we were correct all along.
You can love Elon Musk or you can hate him, but there’s no doubt that the high-caliber individuals he’s placed on his team have uncovered things that neither long-term Beltway Democrats, nor Republicans ever could.
The latest is that millions of non-citizens have been given Social Security numbers and placed in the system, while many of them have been registered to vote.
The Social Security system is poised for collapse in 2033 when there will be an automatic 20% cut in benefits due to the money running dry. Part of the reason is that while there were over 40 workers for every retiree when Social Security was founded in the 1930s, that ratio is down to 2 to 3 workers for every one retiree today. This is simply unsustainable.
But another part is fraud within the system. The DOGE team uncovered that, alarmingly, 40% of all calls into Social Security offices are from fraudsters who are trying to change a bank account so that other people’s Social Security checks can be deposited into the fraudulent accounts.
And now DOGE uncovered that there were millions of people who have been given Social Security numbers as non-citizens.
How many Americans even knew that non-citizens can get a Social Security number?
Those receiving work authority can get a number, which is a questionable policy on its own. But now that Biden allowed millions of illegal entrants to claim legal status by simply claiming asylum, or by going through his bogus app, they are flooding our Social Security network.
While not all may be receiving benefits at this time, it’s only a matter of time before they will.
It is high time that our government clamp down on this abuse. We might not like all of the methods of the DOGE crew, and we certainly believe that they should get congressional approval for their actions and any final determination is made, but let’s not make the perfect the enemy of the good.
They are doing very good work in exposing this fraud. And that’s not a partisan thing. Beltway insiders from both sides of the aisle have failed to uncover and do anything about this waste for years.
Finally, someone is doing something about it. Let’s encourage them, rather than inhibiting them.
Steve Levy is President of Common Sense Strategies, a political consulting firm. He served as Suffolk County Executive, as a NYS Assemblyman, and host of “The Steve Levy Radio Show.” He is the author of “Solutions to America’s Problems” and “Bias in the Media.” www.SteveLevy.info, Twitter @SteveLevyNY, steve@commonsensestrategies.com