If my green card is currently under process and I have a filed I 485 application, I'm in authorized status and even if I lose my job. Unless there are extreme mitigating circumstance, I would have already filed for Advance Parole and EAD while filing my 485. I can even travel abroad and come back with my I485, but as long as I remain in the US, I can work for any company in US. I can 'port' my job with a new employer and I usually have the 180 day grace period to do this. If I've paid 10 years of SSN and I should be able to utilize the safety net I paid for anyway during this grace period. With this law, if I ever claimed social security benefit, USCIS will reject my I485 as well, basically making me lose my immigration status and I will be placed in deportation proceedings.
I've lived in this country since 2005 with a break of an year in 2012. I would have easily paid anywhere between 70,000 to 120,000 USD in social security taxes during my time of employment here. With 3 to 5% gain of the invested amount annually, I've contributed near enough 200,000K as of today to the SSN scheme with increasingly hostile administrations making it harder for me to live in this country. At the very least, I'll live here for another couple of years and by the time I'm 67 eligible for retirement benefits, using current return projections, my contribution would be anywhere between 400K to half a million. I have zero confidence about this money coming to my help when I'm 67 years as I will most definitely be living in India and administrations like this may easily introduce a memo that will make aliens outside US not availing their rightful social security benefits.
