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‘People are feeling betrayed’: They paid taxes in good faith and now fear it could lead to their deportation
CNN ^ | April 15, 2025 | By Catherine E. Shoichet and Marshall Cohen

Posted on 04/15/2025 4:14:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Too bad. Illegal aliens working and paying income taxes have only themselves to blame.


41 posted on 04/15/2025 5:26:08 AM PDT by batazoid (Natural born citizen)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

For Pete’s sake, it is taxes that you are required to pay to the US government, not protection money paid to the mafia.


42 posted on 04/15/2025 5:26:44 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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Funny. We paid taxes in good faith and now fear that money could lead to our subjugation by foreign invaders.


43 posted on 04/15/2025 5:27:33 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( )
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Illegals pay sales tax. But I bet they get child tax credits.


44 posted on 04/15/2025 5:29:15 AM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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They paid their taxes and were able to live here in a way that is impossible
in their native countries.
Now it’s time to return - they got more than their money’s worth.


45 posted on 04/15/2025 5:29:25 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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They should get to ride business class out of the USA.


46 posted on 04/15/2025 5:31:46 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Filing a tax return is different than actually paying any taxes.
47 posted on 04/15/2025 5:33:31 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Kick all illegal aliens OUT! They have the “right” to have their assets seized and their a**es kick. That is it. Are you an illegal??? OUT! Do you support illegals??? Leave with your “friends” or be arrested.


48 posted on 04/15/2025 5:35:45 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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Experts say the new policy could cost billions in lost revenue

For what Country? Are we talking about remittances being sent to Central/South America?

49 posted on 04/15/2025 5:39:57 AM PDT by twyn1 (“An evil man will burn his own country to the ground to rule over the ashes”)
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It’s my understanding that they have to register anyway.

If there is some legal reason that permits you to be here, some leftist lawyer or federal judge will come up with it.


50 posted on 04/15/2025 5:46:56 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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Well, they need to go home, and freak out, and mow their lawns, and fix up their shithole countries. See? I pay taxes, too, and still have to obey the law.


51 posted on 04/15/2025 5:52:01 AM PDT by healy61
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If someone has paid taxes then how are they “undocumented”?


52 posted on 04/15/2025 5:52:02 AM PDT by AndyTheBear (Certified smarter than average for my species)
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I’ll tell you about “A lot of people are feeling betrayed,”. US Citizens paid taxes to support our governments and laws. The Libs stole from the first and did not honor the second. We, the US Citizens have been betrayed!


53 posted on 04/15/2025 5:53:44 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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They are criminals! Tough s***!


54 posted on 04/15/2025 5:56:09 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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IF, they pay taxes its only to “hope” that they can stay “illegally” in the USA.

Ya know what they say, hope in one hand and s**t in the other and see which one fills up first.

GTFO of MY country.


55 posted on 04/15/2025 6:05:10 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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Comon CNN aka Constipated News Nerds, how many illegal aliens, not undocumented immigrants are actually paying taxes?


56 posted on 04/15/2025 6:07:34 AM PDT by antidemoncrat ( )
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Even our own government concluded that illegals are a net-drain on resources. The claim of ‘lost revenue’ is moot.

Besides, what are the odds that they were paying taxes due to employers being required to? We know many have been given SS numbers.

The argument that they’re, somehow, economically necessary is false.


57 posted on 04/15/2025 6:07:44 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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Every foreigner pays taxes on money earned here. Most situation, they get a credit for that tax on their taxes due in their country of citizenship.


58 posted on 04/15/2025 6:09:19 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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So if I pay taxes, does that mean I can drive without a driver’s license? Build a third story on my house without a permit? Practice medicine without a license? Enter a military base without clearance? Bring a gun on an airplane? The list goes on and on.


59 posted on 04/15/2025 6:10:27 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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Experts say the new policy could cost billions in lost revenue


and save billions in terms of refundable credits like earned income and child credits.

look at the total system.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/the-earned-income-tax-credit-eitc.html#:~:text=To%20qualify%20for%20the%20EITC%2C%20you%20must%3A%201,running%20a%20business%E2%80%94but%20not%20too%20much%20of%20it.

To qualify for the EITC, you must:

be a U.S. citizen or resident alien (special rules apply if you or your spouse are a nonresident alien)

be at least 25 years old

be under 65 years old
not be someone else’s dependent or child for EITC purposes, and

have at least $1 of earned income—such as wages, tips, or

income from running a business—but not too much of it.
The income limit depends on your family size. The more “qualifying children” you have, the larger your income may be for qualifying purposes.


I would expect payments for eitc to be down this year and applications for all welfare to be down this year.


60 posted on 04/15/2025 6:15:54 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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