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Republican bill would block illegal immigrants from receiving tax breaks
https://justthenews.com/ ^ | 2/1/2025 | Thérèse Boudreaux

Posted on 02/01/2025 9:17:20 PM PST by bitt

The U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation estimates Hyde-Smith's legislation could save nearly $28 billion over ten years.

Immigrants residing illegally within the U.S. could no longer receive child tax credits or tax breaks for low income earners if the Safeguarding American Workers’ Benefits Act becomes law.

Reintroduced by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., the legislation would require both parents and children to have Social Security numbers that are valid for employment in order to claim the Child Tax Credit or the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., has introduced a companion bill in the House.

The U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation estimates Hyde-Smith's legislation could save nearly $28 billion over ten years.

“I welcome President [Donald] Trump’s intent to target wasteful spending and enforce immigration laws,” Hyde-Smith said Tuesday. “The environment is certainly friendlier now to adopt legislation that saves billions of dollars and ensures that only U.S citizens and persons authorized to work can benefit from the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit.”

While the CTC and EITC should only go to those with SSNs valid for employment, certain loopholes allow some people who do not meet the requirements to receive the federal benefits. The bill would close those loopholes.

Only weeks into Trump’s second presidency, Republicans and the Commander in Chief have already implemented or introduced other anti-illegal immigration measures, including reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy and authorizing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to round up and deport migrants residing in the U.S.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; block; illegalimmigrants; receivingtaxbreaks; taxbreaks; taxes
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1 posted on 02/01/2025 9:17:20 PM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 02/01/2025 9:17:32 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: bitt

Gee. If that were to pass there wouldn’t be a lot of reasons to stay here.


3 posted on 02/01/2025 9:23:58 PM PST by Beowulf9 ( )
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To: bitt

Bueno. The EITC is such a scam. Getting a tax refund when you don’t pay any taxes. My son was given about $7,000 a couple years ago from it and he didn’t even apply.


4 posted on 02/01/2025 9:25:52 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: bitt

Man, this looks incredible when seeing it in print.

While people know about most of these things, they are going to be shocked to actually realize how bad it is when they read headlines like this, or headlines like “Republicans pass legislation to stop giving monthly government checks to people in the country illegally”


5 posted on 02/01/2025 9:26:21 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: bitt

Still abusing and mis-using the word “Migrant/s”.
Migrants come in legally.
Invaders and illegals sneak in or overstay their visa.
These bills do not affect migrants.


6 posted on 02/01/2025 9:39:37 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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To: bitt

EITC and Child Tax Credit must be audited.
Illegals have NO RIGHT TO THESE.

Better, just eliminate the EITC.


7 posted on 02/01/2025 9:45:48 PM PST by dadgum (Trump 2024)
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To: Ex gun maker.

That’s right.


8 posted on 02/01/2025 9:50:10 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: bitt

Common sense bill

This is what we have to now legislate in 2025


9 posted on 02/01/2025 10:05:54 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Ex gun maker.
Example:

https://law.justia.com/codes/us/title-8/chapter-12/subchapter-ii/part-ix/sec-1365/

Title 8 - Aliens and Nationality
Chapter 12 - Immigration and Nationality
Subchapter II - Immigration
Part IX - Miscellaneous
Sec. 1365 - Reimbursement of States for costs of incarcerating illegal aliens and certain Cuban nationals

8 U.S.C. § 1365 (2022)

§1365. Reimbursement of States for costs of incarcerating illegal aliens and certain Cuban nationals

(a) Reimbursement of States

Subject to the amounts provided in advance in appropriation Acts, the Attorney General shall reimburse a State for the costs incurred by the State for the imprisonment of any illegal alien or Cuban national who is convicted of a felony by such State.

(b) Illegal aliens convicted of a felony

An illegal alien referred to in subsection (a) is any alien who is any alien convicted of a felony who is in the United States unlawfully and—

(1) whose most recent entry into the United States was without inspection, or

(2) whose most recent admission to the United States was as a nonimmigrant and—

(A) whose period of authorized stay as a nonimmigrant expired, or

(B) whose unlawful status was known to the Government,

before the date of the commission of the crime for which the alien is convicted.

[...]


10 posted on 02/01/2025 10:23:06 PM PST by woodpusher
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To: bitt

I still want a head tax on all illegals - not a one-time fine, a hefty, yearly head tax for the privilege of not being deported yet.


11 posted on 02/01/2025 11:48:13 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: bitt

Finally!


12 posted on 02/02/2025 12:51:31 AM PST by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: bitt

poison the well from which they drink


13 posted on 02/02/2025 1:33:54 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: bitt

Why is nobody taxing remittances?


14 posted on 02/02/2025 1:39:11 AM PST by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: bitt

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15 posted on 02/02/2025 2:45:01 AM PST by gattaca (Once a nation loses control of its borders, it is no longer a nation...Ronald Reagan)
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To: bitt

How does an illegal alien get a SSN in the first place?

They pay income tax?


16 posted on 02/02/2025 4:22:42 AM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: bitt

Illegal Aliens should receive absolutely NO benefits. Period!!!


17 posted on 02/02/2025 4:38:27 AM PST by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: bitt

If you tune up your income just right, you can get quite a lot of money off the taxpayer for not doing anything.


18 posted on 02/02/2025 5:21:29 AM PST by AZJeep
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To: bitt

Do they PAY taxes??


19 posted on 02/02/2025 5:44:20 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: Ex gun maker.

Preach it!


20 posted on 02/02/2025 6:19:06 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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