Immigrants don’t get access to social security until and unless they become citizens or legal permanent residents. Illegal immigrants, legal visitors who aren’t residing long term, and people with temporary protected status have no access to to social security in the first place.

So the answer is that the Biden administration didn’t give access to temporary protected status immigrants to begin with rather Republicans in need of something to justify their personal resentment made something up.

In cases of gaining citizenship or legal permanent residency such people are required to meet the same requirements as everyone else. Specifically they need to earn enough work credits to qualify for Social Security benefits like retirement, disability, or survivors benefits. For all legal residents, native born or otherwise, enough work credits is typically 40 quarters of employment.

Isn’t that misappropriations of funds?

No, it’s following the rules of the program as current laid out. Your lack of understanding for that programs rules as well as negative assumptions are a you problem.

I was a policy advisor on Social Security with a libertarian think-tank, and admin of the Fix Social Security Now space.

I stepped back from writing on Social Security back in December because the discussion has jumped the shark. The debate has left reality far in the rear-view mirror. I can explain technical issues, but I cannot explain to people who simply want to believe in Bigfoot that Bigfoot doesn’t exist.

The Democrats are just as bad, but the idea that Biden was giving Social Security to immigrants TPS or otherwise is unhinged from reality. You believe in Bigfoot because you want to believe. This has nothing to do with the appropriation of funds. This has to do with your willingness to believe and a commitment to FoxNews as a trusted source of information.

This narrative has been debunked, and debunked, and debunked. Fox News tells you because it knows that it has an audience of people who want to believe. If you want to believe, you should be able to make-up the means that the money was paid.

You don’t need Fox News to create crazy narratives for you. Just get ChatGPT going.