Late last week, the House approved a budget reconciliation package (H.R.5652) offered by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) that included Rep. Sam Johnson's bill to prevent Child Tax Credit refunds from going to illegal aliens. The refund that can be up to $1,000 per child goes to any taxfilier, but the measure proposed by Rep. Johnson (R-Texas) would require a valid Social Security number.
Legal Immigrants in Maryland are speaking out against the state's new law that will offer in-state tuition benefits to illegal aliens. According to a report by the Washington Post, many legal immigrants in the state have joined forces with a group leading the effort to repeal the law through a ballot initiative.
The virulently open-border Congressional Hispanic Caucus appears poised to vote FOR health care verification requirements that they vehemently oppose. And that is both a great irony of this protracted debate and a sign that grassroots activists for sensible immigration policies can take at least some satisfaction for all of their efforts this past year to make sure that whatever happens on health care, there won't be big extra incentives for breaking immigration laws.
The open-borders lobby is wailing about Pres. Obama's health care compromise, and that seems like it should be good news on the immigration front. . . .
Robert Rector and Christine Kim of the Heritage Foundation calculated that an average low-skilled immigrant household costs federal, local, and state governments $19,588 per year more than it pays in all taxes.
What Low-Skilled Immigrant Households Pay in Taxes
Rector and Kim concluded that low-skilled immigrant households pay $10,573 in taxes per year. As the following chart shows, Rector and Kim took every possible tax collection method into account, including sales tax, the purchase of lottery tickets, and user fees:
