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Congressional Report: ACORN Broke No Laws

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albusteve12/24/2009 7:31:58 pm PST

re: #294 Stanley Sea

Immigration story. Mom from another country. Came to US in 1959 on some sort of visa, married Dad. Worked all her life. Got those SS statements in the mail. Goes to collect Social Security…please show us your birth certificate. She has a SS #, had it since she started working in 1960, but find out she’s an undocumented immigrant. She never did the necessary paperwork. This is in So Cal. I kind of freak out. Do everything (pay $$$) to get her “legal”. Luckily this is 3 years ago, before the big anti-immigration hullabaloo. She qualified by being here continuously since 1972. Get’s her SS now, green card carrying senior.

One (of the many) things I got out of this event, is there are people have paid into SS and cannot collect it.

like me…my right leg is nearly dead, sliced open with my muscles falling out, infected half the time after four surgeries in 12 months…I’m hooked on pain killers, trying to avoid having the goddamned thing chopped off….and the SS Disability lady want’s me to sell my work truck and and work in a tire shop up the road…I can’t even fucking walk more than 100 ft…I’m crippled, in constant pain with a stack of med records 2 inches thick…they denied me my own money…MY MONEY!…I hate the feds, you wanna know why?