To be fair Schutzstaffel is not the same as Social Security and Social Security benefit payments are not regularly a "gravy train". I use the term SS Gravy Train as an emphatically negative response to an article I read earlier in the AP wireline. A story that I believe, for my two cents, should anger or at least cause psychic discomfort to citizens and residents of the U.S.
You can read the story for yourself here. Why are suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards receiving social security benefit payments after being forced out of the U.S.? Because the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigation (OSI) used the payments as levarage to get suspected SS war criminals to leave the country voluntarily rather than being forced to go through the deportation process. OSI was so fearful of the cost and length of the process of deportation that they cut deals with Nazi war criminals, several of whom are now living outside the U.S. and continuing to receive social security payments. The article linked above states that 38 of 66 suspects removed from the country kept their social security benefits.
Rather than forcing congress to change the process for deportation of suspected war criminals, rather than forcing the State Department to care more about war crimes and less about diplomatic nicety, we paid war criminals to leave the country and stay out of the country. We, the U.S., dumped war criminals on other countries. Even when pressure and outrage stopped the dumping practice we have continued to pay benefits to these suspected war criminals. We freeze the assets of suspected criminals before trial and sentencing in this country routinely. But apparently this does not apply to suspected Nazi war criminals.
You can read the story for yourself here. Why are suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards receiving social security benefit payments after being forced out of the U.S.? Because the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigation (OSI) used the payments as levarage to get suspected SS war criminals to leave the country voluntarily rather than being forced to go through the deportation process. OSI was so fearful of the cost and length of the process of deportation that they cut deals with Nazi war criminals, several of whom are now living outside the U.S. and continuing to receive social security payments. The article linked above states that 38 of 66 suspects removed from the country kept their social security benefits.
Rather than forcing congress to change the process for deportation of suspected war criminals, rather than forcing the State Department to care more about war crimes and less about diplomatic nicety, we paid war criminals to leave the country and stay out of the country. We, the U.S., dumped war criminals on other countries. Even when pressure and outrage stopped the dumping practice we have continued to pay benefits to these suspected war criminals. We freeze the assets of suspected criminals before trial and sentencing in this country routinely. But apparently this does not apply to suspected Nazi war criminals.
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