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Originally Posted by rusnak
Sorry, but you are wrong. Non-citizens may indeed get work permits and do indeed pay into SS.
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Yes, I know. For example, you can be a recent grad on a student visa and get OPT, which gives you a year to find an H1B sponsor. But, IIRC, when Mrs. Lee work under OPT, she did not have to pay SS or Medicare
until she had adjusted status to an H1B. The illegals coming up through Mexico who go to work in the fields, picking strawberries or working on landscaping crews cannot and do not get those labor permits. There are regular busts around here (for which Sheriff Joe is in big trouble, himself) where they round up restaurant workers who have all the proper paperwork, except that it belongs to someone else.