GOP's use of the term illegal immigrants to take things away from legal alien guest workers:
The GOP is trying to take access to the Federal Child Tax Credit (CTC) away from Legal foreign workers living in the US by claiming that the money is going to illegal immigrants.
In response to a treasury department audit where it was found that 4.5 billion dollars in CTC funds has gone to legal alien residents who are not authorized to work in the US but are given Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN) and are expected to file taxes. These legal aliens have been claiming the CTC but the law is currently unclear on their eligibility to do so. In response the GOP is demanding that only filers with a valid SS# should be allowed to collect for the CTC to prevent illegal immigrants from gaining the credit. But this isn’t an issue of illegal immigration, what this will do is bar any legal immigrants who have a ITIN instead of a SS# from having access to the CTC.
Whatever your opinion is about if legal foreign workers ought to be eligible for the CTC and other tax credits everyone should be disgusted with the way the GOP is playing the illegal immigrant card to take benefits away from legal ones.
It’s also fascinating to me how when the GOP talks about immigrants & aliens, they’re most certainly talking about South Americans. And yet, this measure would affect a much wider group. The wide and varied reality of what a legal foreign worker looks like in this country doesn’t always match the rhetoric, yet thanks to said rhetoric, we know exactly who they’re targeting.
French Canadians.
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aguavodka reblogged this from jenandtonic and added:
French Canadians.
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jenandtonic reblogged this from summerjames and added:
It’s also fascinating...& aliens, they’re most certainly talking about South Americans....
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