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Mr. Gracias is correct here about two different time series in the chart I posted, and I am deleting my original post. HOWEVER, that doesn’t mean that the graph that he and Musk highlighted about SSN’s going to immigrants isn’t highly misleading itself. (2) For as he admits, the data/chart they used only covered one method (“EBE”) that legal immigrants apply for SSN’s. But that’s not what the heading on their graph implies, nor was it clear in his discussion. (3) Finally, as a number of us have pointed out, the entire concept of SSN issuance to legal immigrants is a red herring by DOGE. We want people employed to be paying the proper amount of payroll taxes-it’s the payment of benefits that should concern us/DOGE.

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Your data is apples to oranges. The data you show for the 2016 to 2020 period is enumeration for all immigrants in ALL forms. The data we showed in our slide last night in Wisconsin was just Enumeration Beyond Entry ("EBE") immigrants. The difference is Enumerations at Field Offices. These have remained stable at about 1 mln/year excluding COVID. We focused just on EBE because it ramped as a direct result of growth in the various asylum programs. Your chart mixes the two categories: showing all immigrant Enumerations from 2016 thru 2020 and EBE only from 2021 to 2024. Here is the chart back to 2019 for Enumeration Beyond Entry which is when the EBE basically started. I want to thank the good people at the Social Security Administration for their expert help. We would not have been able to understand this complex system without them. There are many terrific people at SSA serving their fellow citizens. We are very grateful. I believe these facts speak for themselves. As the son of legal immigrants to America, I am an ardent supporter of legal immigration.
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