I was disabled in a work accident about a year and a half ago and am on social security disability. I have been trying to get on Medicare ever since in the hopes of getting the operations I need to go back to work, but I can rarely even get a reply. The premiums I would have to pay are almost half of my income, so that isn’t an option.
Recently, I talked to a group of mostly illegal Mexicans that were re-siding a building next door and found that along with food stamps, 3 of them had Medicaid coverage!
After I called immigration (nothing was done), I was wondering why it was so much easier for them to get some benefits than me. I started paying in at 14 when (I lied about my age) and started working as a welder’s helper. I would love to go back to work, get off ‘the system’, and pay in my fair share again, so why are people who don’t and never have done anything for this country given such preferential treatment? Am I just frustrated with the dead-ends I keep coming to and getting the wrong impression of the system?

Lol, there’s no preferential treatment and illegal immigrants are ineligible for federal aid. If they’re injured and need emergency treatment, medicaid covers a small portion of the hospital’s loss.
It’s hard for you to get aid because it’s hard for EVERYONE to get aid. You’ve been told your whole life that it’s easy to get government aid, now you’re seeing that it’s insanely hard, pays almost nothing and disqualifies you for pretty much every reason under the sun.
Illegal immigrants are not eligible for ANY social service programs except emergency medical care. Emergency medical care is also available to anyone else who resides within US borders regardless of ability to pay.
Illegals are only getting services if they have phony I.D. or they borrow someone’s I.D. If these people were working on construction, maybe there were not illegal. You should report the employer.
Your story sounds pretty phony
70 percent of all American food is grown with illegal labor, so unless you dont like to eat……