[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2707]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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           SOCIAL SECURITY TOTALIZATION AGREEMENT WITH MEXICO

  (Mr. GOODE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. GOODE. Mr. Speaker, on June 29, 2004, the United States Social 
Security Commissioner and the Director General of the Mexican Social 
Security Institute entered into a Social Security totalization 
agreement between Mexico and the United States.
  The U.S. has totalization agreements with 20 other countries. 
However, all of these, except Canada, are with countries a substantial 
distance away. As a result, they involve relatively few workers and 
have little or no impact on illegal immigration. Unfortunately, the 
Mexican totalization agreement will be a huge incentive for increased 
illegal immigration.
  Under this agreement, if there is amnesty and a glide path to 
citizenship, illegal aliens will be able to qualify their work in the 
United States for Social Security funds. This would result in a huge 
increase in Social Security costs for the United States at a time when 
we are wrestling with reforming that system.
  We need to stop the totalization agreement and preserve Social 
Security.

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