The way I read it, this is less of a problem with the child tax credit and more of a problem with birthright citizenship. Until we get rid of birthright citizenship, the kids born here to illegals are American citizens and receive a SSN at birth, thus qualifying their parents for a CTC.
At least they finally wised up and are requiring a SSN to qualify. This wasn't required before and allowed parents to claim dozens of imaginary kids as well as "Dreamers" for tax credits resulting in billions of dollars of fraudulent payouts.
“At least they finally wised up and are requiring a SSN to qualify.”
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And what about those people who use someone elses SSN?
The government seems to be unable to catch them.
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