Latest Answers http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/latest/%2A/16/%2A/%2A a view of answers sorted by date en It’s my understanding that if people are hired and they turn in a social security number that they are charged or pay social security. Whether or not they ever collect that would depend on whether they ever get legal and are using a social security number that is legal. I am opposed to agreements with other countries that would allow people, for example in Mexico, to pay into their Mexican system and then draw money out of our system or participate in our system. But if a person is working in this country, whether they’re legal or illegal, if they’re using a social security number and paying into the social security system, then I assume that if they can hold on to that social security number, they can get it back. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/it%E2%80%99s-my-understanding-if-people-are-hired-and-they-turn-social-security-number-they-are-char http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/it%E2%80%99s-my-understanding-if-people-are-hired-and-they-turn-social-security-number-they-are-char#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:52:32 -0500 amukherjee 1538 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org Well, which is really interesting, because you already have many non-citizens serving today. I believe the first soldier who died in Iraq was a non-citizen, someone that illegally immigrated to California, he was an orphan and then joined the Marines and died. I know that we have non-citizens from San Antonio that have died, because actually their funerals took place in Mexico. So you already have that going on to be honest with you. But, no, I don’t think that’s going to be one of these solutions- that if you want to come over here, you join our armed services. You join our armed services because of the love of our country and what it represents. That’s your only motivation, there is nothing back there- whether you are a citizen, non-citizen or whatever it is, you just have to genuinely believe and have that in your heart. We have incentives, which we understand. But this would not be something of a carrot that we would hold out and that way we would plus up our military. That’s not the way we do that. I understand what this particular individual is advocating, but it probably would not be workable. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/well%2C-which-really-interesting%2C-because-you-already-have-many-non-citizens-serving-today.-i- Thu, 08 May 2008 14:05:27 -0500 Jodi Breisler 1279 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org Nobody believes, certainly I don’t that you can just build a fence, pat yourself on the back and say ‘hey, look we secured the border’ because people can cut holes in fences, they can come over it and they can come around it. So, you need to have a solution comprised of people, technology and in some places physical barriers- but it’s got to be a combination. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/nobody-believes%2C-certainly-i-don%E2%80%99t-you-can-just-build-fence%2C-pat-yourself-back-and-say-%E2%80%98hey%2C Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:57:00 -0500 Jodi Breisler 1241 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org Nutrition education we already do within health classes. When my kids were in kindergarten or 1st Grade, and how many grains and how many dairies, so nutrition education, yes. One of the other questions to be asked is, is it the federal government’s role to tell schools what they should be doing within the choices that are available within a school. We need to keep in mind that within the past 40 some-odd years, we’ve been doing that within the school lunch program. We have set the standards within school lunches and we say there are standards that need to be met. What we haven’t really done is updated those standards. It’s not just what is available within the school lunch program. It’s also what is available for sale through other programs. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/nutrition-education-we-already-do-within-health-classes.-when-my-kids-were-kindergarten-or-1 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:09:27 -0500 1180 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org Well first of all, it’s not up the federal government to mandate what schools teach. I would never want to intrude on the local jurisdiction of schools to decide who they hire, who the fire, what books use. That’s not the role of the federal government. But I do think the role of the federal government is, as long as we’re providing school lunches and school breakfasts and food in schools, that we ought to be able to say what foods would be allowed in those schools. If you’re gonna partake in the school lunch or school breakfast program, then you oughta be able to set guidelines for all of the foods in those schools. And that’s what I’m trying get accomplished. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/well-first-all%2C-it%E2%80%99s-not-federal-government-mandate-what-schools-teach.-i-would-never-want-i Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:07:38 -0500 1178 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org You may see immigration reform come through in pieces. I think we’re going to have to have a legal channel to meet the demands for labor in this country. At the same time security at the border is important. We share this border, we share the problem and we share the responsibility of securing the border on both sides. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/you-may-see-immigration-reform-come-through-pieces.-i-think-we%E2%80%99re-going-have-have-legal-chan Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:56:13 -0600 1097 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org The first thing is we do have to have border security. The right type of border security; Will that stimulate the economy building the fence?...I’m against the fence. If you’ve going to spend $3 million a mile there are other ways, using technology, getting rid of the Carrizo, the plants that grow so high that border patrol can’t do their jobs. Our economy does depend on people doing certain type of jobs. I would say first, give them to the Americans, but if you have ag products or construction or hotel industry jobs that people don’t want to do those jobs, let someone else do it. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/first-thing-we-do-have-have-border-security.-right-type-border-security%3B-will-stimulate-econ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:49:06 -0600 1093 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org We not only have a right we have a responsibility that American immigration is not first good for America and second good for the immigrant. Usually it’s good for both. There is a legitimate argument that I don’t think people talk about. Every community is concerned about how many people are moving in and the impact on roads and everything else. These are the kind of open and frank discussions that we should encourage without being attacked for the dialog and going back and forth. In reality, the strain on infrastructure puts a burden on working class poorer neighborhoods, not the wealthy neighborhoods that are benefiting from this increase in population. http://www.askyourlawmaker.org/answers/we-not-only-have-right-we-have-responsibility-american-immigration-not-first-good-america-an Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:29:06 -0600 1083 at http://www.askyourlawmaker.org