Illegal Immigrant Taxpayers to Benefit From House-Approved Stimulus Plan

Fox News ^ | Tuesday, January 29, 2008

[Joiseydude]

WASHINGTON — The $146 billion stimulus package intended to jolt the economy by giving taxpayers rebates up to $1,200 includes cash returns for illegal immigrants who pay taxes.

Under the plan passed by the House, illegal immigrants who qualify as "resident aliens" and earned a minimum of $3,000 would be eligible for rebates of between $300-$600, FOX News has learned.

Only those illegals who have been assigned an Individual Tax Identification Number that allows them to file income taxes would be eligible. Resident aliens are defined as people who spend a "substantial" amount of time in the U.S. and have not been deported.

The provision has irked illegal immigration opponents, who say the assigning of TINs and collection of taxes from illegals sanctions their presence in the country.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., told FOX News that the bill will certainly stimulate "more illegal immigration."

[fireforeffect]

No, I am not looking for a cowboy action gun right now.

Norinco (China) does make some excellent guns though. Replica double barrel 10 gage Greeners, Winchester 1897 pump trench guns, and other fine arms. Using slave labor make it cheap to build those old handmade style guns.

I am trying to make up my mind between a j-frame, a 1911 style pocket pistol, or a tupperware pocket pistol. .357, 9mm, or .40. Decisions, decisions, decisions.

[CoastWatcher]

Agreed. Only 47% of citizens pay federal taxes. Why these people are contributing more to America than almost half the country. I say let them stay and throw the other 47% out.

[cake_crumb]

I don’t think you understand. Dad was a resident alien. It was legal for him to live and work there. There’s a real difference between people living and working here legally and paying taxes and those who don’t. I can’t imagine how honoring the law about income tax means you don’t honor our laws.

[melancholy]

They can’t be completely “illegal” if they pay taxes. My dad lived, worked and paid taxes in Saudi for over 20 years...does that make him an “illegal”?

Apples and oranges, Sir/Mam!

I don't think that your dad "sneaked in" Saudi Arabia. If he did, he would have been sticking out like a sore thumb and would have been punished, deported or both. It sounds to me that your dad was quite legal in SA, wasn't he?

I used to have a tagline that said: Name one country, other than the USA, that doesn't control its border.

So far, I haven't gotten an answer! Do you happen to have one??

[B4Ranch]

Now.................

I hope the following 14 reasons are read so many times that the readers get sick of reading them. I have included the URL’s for verification of the following facts.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.

Homeland Security Report
http://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf

12. The National Policy Institute, ‘estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.’
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?b=deportation

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin.
http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. ‘The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States’.
http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html#Illegals

The total cost is a whooping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR !

[gubamyster]

ping

[hedgetrimmer]

I’d rather an illegal immigrant paying taxes benefit than a citizen that pays nothing.

Since the government knows they're illegal, why don't they deport them?

I'd rather the govenment protect citizen's rights that give anything to the lawbreakers.

[chicagolady]

ACTUALLY it is a MEXICO stimulus package!!

[MizSterious]

And giving money to illegals (rewarding them for their crimes) to send to Mexico (as most will likely do) help OUR economy?

[domenad]

I understand your point. Purely from an economic perspective, I just think that an illegal immigrant who has been working and paying taxes is more deserving of a rebate than a citizen sitting on his/her ever-widening rear end collecting welfare.

[domenad]

Maybe not much, there’s a fair chance that they’ll just send a good piece of the money, if not all of it, back to Mexico. I’m only talking about who is deserving, and I maintain that a taxpaying illegal is more deserving than a sponging citizen.

[hedgetrimmer]

I just think that an illegal immigrant who has been working and paying taxes is more deserving of a rebate than a citizen sitting on his/her ever-widening rear end collecting welfare.

No one should get a 'rebate'. The president and Congress need to buck up to their perfidy, and do something that will actually help the domestic economy, instead of China or the international banks whose greed and influence got us into the situation.

If fewer taxes are good, then they should cut taxes. None of this phony rebate stuff giving away money that isn't theirs to give.

[hedgetrimmer]

I maintain that a taxpaying illegal is more deserving than a sponging citizen.

Borders have to mean something. Sponging citizens need to be dealt with, and illegals need to be deported. If they lose the money they have paid in taxes, consider it a fine for their lawbreaking.

[oiler]

Why don’t we just give them a drivers license at the same time? /s

Hey, how ‘bout cutting a few checks for those Enron folks too!!!? /s

[mnehring]

Not exactly. In the definitions of the bill, it states clearly:

(2) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL- The term `eligible individual' means any individual other than-- `(A) any nonresident alien individual,..