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Because elderly recent immigrants have never worked in the United States to qualify for Social Security benefits , they become heavy beneficiaries of the Supplemental Security Income ( SSI ) program , and ingenious scams have been devised to exploit this program . I am coming to the United States to learn , not to teach . Casey described the plight of the Burundian refugees , some of whom fled or were driven out of their country in 1972 , as " a long-standing issue , " but said the UNHCR had asked the United States to resettle them only in the past year . The National Conference of State Legislatures ( NCSL ) was one of the first national organizations to call on Congress and the President of the United States to eliminate the federal budget deficit . It is not the business of the state to second-guess such consequences , especially when it can be wrong and thus end up applying the coercive force of government , destroying people 's lives , for the sake of a moralistic error . The participating alumni had spent up to one month in the United States to learn how Islam is practiced and how religious groups interact , while living with a religious American host family .