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On Saturday, Newsweek ran a story headlined, “Scott Bessent looks to cut off tax benefits for illegal migrants.” In the wake of the DC shootings, President Trump published a fiery Thanksgiving post that, among other things, promised to crack down on taxpayer money flowing to illegal aliens.

On Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tweeted that his agency was already acting.

Illegal aliens unauthorized to work in the U.S. can still file federal tax returns using ITINs, which the IRS issues “regardless of immigration status” so that non‑citizens can report income and pay tax. But because they are often in low or mid-income levels, illegals don’t pay taxes.

Instead, illegals with ITINs qualify for various “tax credits.” You aren’t going to believe this next part, but I swear it is true.

Some of these tax credits are “refundable,” meaning that if the credit exceeds any tax owed, the IRS cuts a check or a direct deposit for the difference, turning the credit into a rebate instead of just reducing tax liability to zero.

In other words, we’re basically paying the illegals to be here. Using federal tax money collected from citizens. And “charitable” NGOs busily teach them how to get ITINs and apply.

Unsurprisingly, no one has ever studied the scope of this massive, unbelievable problem. But estimates suggest the total amount of “tax credits” “refunded” to illegal aliens is billions and billions per year. As far back as 2010, one Inspector General report found $4.2 billion in Child Care tax credits alone flowing to illegals, having rocketed up from $924 million just five years earlier. A 2023 FAIR estimate calculated $8.4 billion “refunded” to illegals from the Child Care and Earned Income credits alone.

Scott Bessent is now working with the DOJ to issue a new legal opinion, which will reclassify refundable portions of the Earned Income Tax Credit, Additional Child Tax Credit, American Opportunity Tax Credit, Premium Tax Credit, and Saver’s Match Credit as “federal public benefits” that cannot lawfully be paid to “non‑qualified aliens,” including those here illegally.

In a single stroke, this will gut a massive “free money” incentive for illegals to remain in America.

Wait. What the actual fuck?

We have the addresses and other personal info of known illegal aliens, and we are sending them money?

H&R Block employees turned in their illegal alien clients to ICE, and used the reward money to purchase cruise tickets.

Booger says

H&R Block employees turned in their illegal alien clients to ICE, and used the reward money to purchase cruise tickets.

Wait, there's a reward for turning in illegals? How much? Never heard about this.

That woman is full of shit. Illegals are not "immigrants". They are criminals who broke the law to come here and then break labor laws to displace Americans via lower wages so that business owners can profit from the poverty of US citizens.

Sending criminal foreigners back to their own countries is the right thing to do.

Posted Officially by DHS!

MolotovCocktail says

Everyone needs to cancel their health insurance. I’m sure it’s the only way.

https://nypost.com/2024/12/07/us-news/david-gregory-introduces-bill-to-offer-1k-bounty-to-turn-in-illegal-migrants/

Missouri pol introduces bill to offer $1K ‘bounty’ to people who turn in illegal migrants

I think the H&R Block person might have been turning in illegals and keeping their tax refund.

Booger says

H&R Block employees turned in their illegal alien clients to ICE, and used the reward money to purchase cruise tickets.

These people are heroes, wonder if they have a GoFundMe so we can make this their best Xmas ever. I'm talking new guns, new fondue pots, whole new dining room set.

MolotovCocktail says

At some point this has got to start impacting used vehicle pricing as well, I should think. The pricing on beaters has ben outrageous over the last few years and I suspect all the illegals are largely the cause.

zzyzzx says

I suspect all the illegals are largely the cause.

They use them for delivery work. Door Dash, Uber Eats, Amazon Flex, etc

You know, for all the fucked up billshit that Team Trump does, they do Brilliant Moves like this one. ^^

My personal SWAG as to the fuckery to brilliant ratio is around 4:1.

https://x.com/damescorpio/status/1996879903854321999?s=12

I’d like to apply for TPS from the Democrats