Posted on 11/16/2021 9:39:31 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
Illegal Immigrants Would Get $10.5 Billion From Reconciliation Bill
By Steven Camarota November 16, 2021 Illegal Immigrants Would Get $10.5 Billion From Reconciliation Bill AP Photo/Eric Gay
The budget reconciliation package pushed by Democrats creates a new expanded child tax credit (CTC) that would pay illegal immigrants some $10.5 billion next year. All immigrants with children are eligible, regardless of how they got here and whether their children are U.S.-born. This includes the roughly 600,000 unaccompanied minors and persons in family units stopped at the border in FY2021 and released into the country pending a hearing. Cash welfare to illegal immigrants is not just costly; it also encourages more illegal immigration.
Although it is referred to as a “refundable credit,” the new CTC, like the old additional child tax credit (ACTC) it replaces, pays cash to low-income families who do not pay any federal income tax. The new program significantly increases the maximum cash payment from $1,400 per child to $3,600 for children under 6, and to $3,000 for children ages 6 to 17. After 2022, the maximum payment would be $2,000 per child, but advocates hope the much larger payments will be extended.
In an analysis conducted in October, my colleague Karen Zeigler and I estimated that illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children would receive $8.2 billion from the new CTC. However, we had assumed that the new program, like the old ACTC, would require children claimed as dependents to have Social Security numbers (SSNs). But reconciliation (page 1452, line 14) would permanently repeal this requirement.
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Our globalist woke masters are tying to make sure that being an American means nothing - in fact, less than nothing.
You are evil and racist. Non-Americans are more deserving and untainted.
Wasn’t the wall going to cost around half that? I thought at one point Trump wanted 5 billion or so.
FReegards
Appalling.
YA YA..everybody will piss and moan and not a thing will be done about this payoff for votes.
secession.
Makes my blood boil.
They take my tax money and give it to illegals.
Clearly, the American sheeple have decided that it just doesn't matter...
There will be thousands of these draconian events/strategies in the next few years as our former freedoms & liberties continue to be trampled by our communist masters...
Get used to it (continue to bend over and spread those cheeks) or do something significant about it...
Republicans will never win another election when these people start voting.
“YA YA..everybody will piss and moan and not a thing will be done about this payoff for votes.
secession.”
No. Absolutely not. It’s our country. We built it and we paid for it in more ways than one. Let’s kick them out.
Fedgov started giving parents $300 per kid MONTHLY this year which replaced the child tax credit which used to “refund” about 5K to each family (even if they didn’t pay taxes) each tax filing season (January-April). Fedgov made the change to monthly payments to make it easier for families to pay for child expenses.
I didn’t know they were giving the money to illegals, too.
IMO, this is a BIG reason why there are so many people out of the workforce... why work when you get $900 per month (plus probably other welfare) for sitting home on your butt if you have 3 kids?
It’s surprising the figure isn’t $10.5 billion each. As long as they’re printing money...
More than roads and bridges?
That pretty much says it all.
I suspect Valerie Jarrett is in there somewhere too, helping Obama with those puppet strings.
Need to do Operation Wetback again (Eisenhower).
Are liberals so stupid that they don't see how this will impact their neighborhoods, schools, housing, taxes, medical care, everything, when there's millions of new POOR people coming into the country that THEIR taxes must be raised to support?
“which replaced the child tax credit which used to “refund” about 5K to each family (even if they didn’t pay taxes)”
Had to have earned income to qualify for the old credit. Don’t need any income to get the new payments.
American citizens need to go to Mexico and cross the border as illegals.
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