The president’s proposed 2018 budget would put a stop to a government program that has paid out more than $35 billion over the past ten years to illegal immigrants in lump-sum payments, disguised as a “tax credit.”
The use of the credit by illegal immigrants, which has allowed them to get up to $1,000 for each child they claim, including children who are not theirs and who don’t live in the United States, has been referred to as “a multi-billion-dollar fraud scheme” that has taken money out of the hands of hard-working Americans.
“It’s a huge expense coming out of the pocket of American taxpayers.”
It’s called the “Additional Child Tax Credit” — but in application it is not really a credit at all.
Thousands of illegal immigrants file tax returns every year using a taxpayer identification number issued by the IRS called an ITIN. Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies says there is no reason for anyone but an illegal immigrant to use an ITIN to file a tax return: Even legal residents who are not citizens would have a Social Security card. And the only reason people working here illegally would file a return is to get money, through a “credit” that counts against the taxes paid, and then sends them the remaining amount.
May 28th, 2017 @ 6:02 am
The Democrats for several decades now have used Illegal as a voting bloc. It is pure insanity to reward terrorists with housing, food, cars, healthcare, Obama cell phones, free education, school breakfast & lunch, etc, etc. Thats why Democrats are against Voter ID laws. Its been long overdue to end them free ride for terrorists.