Posted on 04/05/2020 5:00:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Democrats on Friday introduced a measure to amend the $2 trillion CARES Act, extending the cash payment benefit to non-citizens, including illegal aliens.
Three House Democrats, Reps. Lou Correa (CA), Judy Chu (CA), and Raúl Grijalva (AZ), introduced the Leave No Taxpayer Behind Act designed to amend the cash payment portion of the CARES Act the $2 trillion emergency economic relief measure designed to help U.S. citizens who are facing economic hardship caused by the coronavirus pandemic to extend to non-citizens.
Currently, the CARES Act requires recipients to have a Social Security number. ITIN (Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers) taxpayers, which include foreign nationals and those residing in the country illegally, are not eligible and will not receive cash assistance. That is an egregious error, according to the Democrats press release.
The Leave No Taxpayer Behind Act amends the CAREs Act to ensure that all taxpayers are eligible for their $1,200 relief check, the release states:
Every individual taxpayer irrespective of citizenship status should receive government assistance. With more than 140,000 coronavirus cases in the United States, it is imperative we come together. This pandemic has led to the closure of many small businesses, which will have a disproportionate impact on immigrants. The Leave No Taxpayer Behind Act will ensure immigrants critical to our economy are not forgotten.
I was appalled to learn hardworking, taxpaying immigrants were left out of the $2 trillion CARES Act, Correa said in a statement:
These taxpayers work in critical sectors of our economy, like agriculture, and contribute greatly to our country. While many of us sit at home, these hardworking immigrants are still at work in our hospitals, our fields, and countless other industries...
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Domestic Enemies at their very worst!
D . O . A
For the millionth time, NO. Struck down by the Supreme Court decades ago.
it’s a publicity stunt as i seen no chance it will even be voted on in the Senate ...
as far as i can tell, it just shows once again that the Dems are America-last, and foreigners-first ... my gut feel, is that this is an EXTREMELY bad time for the Dems to be pushing crap like this when most Americans are in survival mode and most likely have zero sympathy for illegal aliens and those who molly-coddle them to the detriment of working U.S. citizens ...
“If the idea is to create artificial economic activity by raining federal dollars on people, it really doesnt matter who you rain them on.”
in that case, if the Dems want to hand out checks to non-U.S. citizens, then they might as well hand out checks to all the non-U.S. citizens in Mexico and all of Central America and South America, particularly since it’s discriminatory to not include them just because they haven’t managed to illegally cross into the U.S. .. oh, and let’s not forget to send checks to all of our northern neighbors too ...
lol wut?
Ropes.
Lampposts.
Nein! Nein! Nein!
If I post what’s really on my mind, I’d be banned.
They aren’t immigrants. Immigrants come here legally.
How about paying to send them back to where they belong.
All they would have to do is hijack a TIN number, write up a 2019 tax return with the form to report the TIN number and Poof - free money out to millions!
All in exchange for Undocumented voters Votes, don't you know?
Exactly what I expect from the DemocRAT Party.
Criminal democrats stealing money from Americans and giving it to criminal immigrants. That sums up the democrat party, folks.
JoMa
This bill is misnamed. The current relief already leaves no taxpayer behind, as every taxpayer already has a SS number. The bill is actually Leave no non-tax-paying illegal behind
Let me get this straight, you want illegals to get tax payer money?
Absolutely not! My comment was that they are pretending to help taxpayers when indeed they are trying to help non-tax-paying illegals.
This crap has gone crazy. We are locking people up in their homes in states that have little of this crap. Sure, lock down everyone rancher in Wyoming and Montana!! Idaho is a very large over crowded state, lets shut everyone there in their log cabins and let the stock die from nobody taking care of them!!! This mess is getting blown to the moon as everyone panics at each time the leftist, communist, socialist, dimocratic butt kissing MSM Pravda media!!!!!!
The more of this crap I listen to, read and just think about I get more and more concerned that we are going nuts over something that is a lesser evil of the "regular" flu's. They kill far more than this stuff. Make way more people sick. People die of heart attacks, then in the autopsy they discover the person had the virus in their body, so that person is deemed to have died from the virus even tho they died of a massive heart attack. That is crazy. Just jacking up the stats.
NY City's may and the gov are both throwing out massive numbers that they cannot show are true. The guy who is head of the medicals that comes out with Trump throwing out figures like 200,000 people going to die. Where do these people get these numbers? Show me how you got to those numbers.
Rode Island has MILITARY check points out stopping cars, looking for NY people they claim have run from NY to get away from the virus. Sending them back or locking them up. Trains moving around the nation with military equipment on them. TANKS, APC's, etc. Why is a tank or APC needed to help combat a virus? What the hell is going on? How far off is martial law and chunking the Constitution and Bill of Rights in the garbage can, courts have no authority during martial law, etc. The GOVERNMENTS, feds and state then totally control everything, like they are not totally controlling it right now.
EVERYONE yelling peace and safety. Yup, the LORD said in His Holy Scriptures that this is EXACTLY what would be yelled, but when they do, SUDDEN DESTRUCTION will come. It is near. It is coming. WHAT rights have we just given away and WILL NOT GET BACK, IF and when this crap is over. They are talking about JULY, AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER, then just in time for FLU SEASON again!!! The other day on TV the head med guy with Trump said a vaccine was 12 to 18 months away. This country will not stay locked down that long. People are going to start telling the government to go to hell, they are tired of these four walls. Americans were not made to sit in four walls like this. Then again, THIS is not the Americans I used to know.
Oh hell no!
I agree. No financial assistance for non citizens. However...I cant help but feel sorry for them. They bust their asses at work especially the women. They are the hardest working people I’ve ever seen....and i suppose I would be too if I’d escaped places like El Salvador. They’re kind, quiet, careful, punctual, and man they are so hard on themselves if they make a mistake. -—this is from N. Alabama.
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