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.
Illegal immigrants are able to receive benefits on behalf of their U.S.-born children, who are American citizens. In the case of the old ACTC, they simply acquired an individual taxpayer identification number, which is not hard, and then claimed their payment. In practice, only illegal immigrants with U.S.-born children could receive payments under the old system, since as American citizens those U.S.-born children receive SSNs. The permanent elimination of the SSN requirement means that even illegal immigrants whose children are also illegally in the country can receive the new expanded credit.
If the reconciliation bill is passed, we now estimate illegal immigrants whose children are also illegally in the country will receive $2.3 billion from the new CTC, for a total of $10.5 billion in cash payments to illegal immigrant parents. This includes illegal migrants here in 2020 and those stopped and then released into the country in 2021. These payments are not related to the huge cash settlements the administration is planning to pay illegal immigrant families separated at the border during the Trump administration.
Illegal Migrants are FEDERAL CONVICTS that are invading the US. The only money that is going to these illegal migrant FEDRERAL convicts that are invading the US is to deport them out of the US ASAP.
All this money should be going to US citizens such as SENIORS and VETS and US children.
And the Govt officials are BREAKING THE LAW & should be PROSECUTED Incl Biden !!!!!
Better damn sight be against the LAW or Govt will have Riots all over the country over that !!!!
Better give that to Americans on SOCIAL SECURITY instead !!!!
Proves the Govt has Plenty to piss away to ILLEGALS but NONE for Americans & Social Security !!!
They shouldn’t get a penny!
Illegal should mean jail time and permanent deportation!
Where are the courts !!!! Put a STAY on this bullshhht !!!!
Anti-American Democrats should be Jailed & Stop this insane Nonsense !!!!
Stealing Taxpayer Money $$$$$ to give to Illegals should be ILLEGAL !!!!! At the same time they Stop the
Wall & cut the Military & Neglect the American Homeless & those on Social Security !!!!!
Not to mention those they LEFT behind in Afghanistan !!!! To DIE
If you are Illegal You are NOT an immigrant !!!!! GET OUT !!!!!
New Revolution in America if they do that !!! WAR coming !!!
Civil War coming !!!!
That’s what it’s going to take to control this insanity.
Next time Americans Visit D.C they will be ARMED to the teeth !!!!