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Wiz Imp

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2. Illegal/Undocumented Immigrants are ineligible to receive a social security number.

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Thu Apr 10, 2025, 04:05 PM

Apr 2025

Only legal immigrants with a work authorization are eligible. While I'm sure a handful of people have slipped through the cracks, I'm sure that 99.99% of immigrants who have a social security number received it legally so to cancel them would in fact be illegal.

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Pressuring Migrants to 'Self-Deport,' White House Moves to Cancel Social Security Numbers [View all] dalton99a Apr 2025 OP

If you want organized crime that's how you get it electricmonk Apr 2025 #1

Illegal/Undocumented Immigrants are ineligible to receive a social security number. Wiz Imp Apr 2025 #2

Perhaps they meant a Tax ID # - which functions as a social security # for the sake of paying taxes tulipsandroses Apr 2025 #4

The article explicitly said Social Security Numbers Wiz Imp Apr 2025 #5

With no due process at all C_U_L8R Apr 2025 #3