(The Center Square) – Immigrants residing illegally within the U.S. could no longer receive child tax credits or tax breaks for low income earners if the Safeguarding American Workers’ Benefits Act becomes law.
Reintroduced by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., the legislation would require both parents and children to have Social Security numbers that are valid for employment in order to claim the Child Tax Credit or the Earned Income Tax Credit.
Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., has introduced a companion bill in the House.
The U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation estimates Hyde-Smith’s legislation could save nearly $28 billion over ten years.
“I welcome President [Donald] Trump’s intent to target wasteful spending and enforce immigration laws,” Hyde-Smith said Tuesday. “The environment is certainly friendlier now to adopt legislation that saves billions of dollars and ensures that only U.S citizens and persons authorized to work can benefit from the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit.”
While the CTC and EITC should only go to those with SSNs valid for employment, certain loopholes allow some people who do not meet the requirements to receive the federal benefits. The bill would close those loopholes.
Only weeks into Trump’s second presidency, Republicans and the Commander in Chief have already implemented or introduced other anti-illegal immigration measures, including reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy and authorizing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to round up and deport migrants residing in the U.S.
The Safeguarding American Workers’ Benefits Act is also part of Republicans’ federal cost-cutting efforts to finance the extension of Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will cost $4.6 trillion over the next ten years.
“I will work to ensure that [the] Safeguarding American Workers’ Benefits Act is considered as part of the debate to extend and improve on the Trump tax cuts that expire this year,” Hyde-Smith said.
This should be followed by denial of any and all social program benefits, like free housing, free food, free medical/Medicaid, free education and free social security benefits that legal American citizens have already paid for. If we cannot deny illegals the right or access to an American education, we certainly can make them pay their fair share of the costs, starting with the educating of our own teachers in a language they can understand, or force the child to either learn English or stay home and stay stupid, not to mention illegal. American companies who are caught hiring illegals should be made to pay twice the donations to the social security funds, or just more easily and safely hire legal Americans to work for them. Hospitals treating illegals should not admit or release the patient until they sign a right to attach their wages to fully repay the cost of the illegal stolen medical care.
I never understood why they were ‘Entitled” to TAX benefits in the first bloody place.
Bring your kids and you get even more?
Makes as much sense as a store being robbed and the owner sees that there are three perps, so, he runs to his bank to get more money.
Gosh, if they came here legally they wouldn’t have to worry about qualifying.
Come on, if they came here illegally it doesn’t make a difference anyway, do you really think that they pay taxes anyway?