If someone walked around to every household in the United States and asked every legal citizen if they would mind raising their taxes to pay the way for illegal aliens, the answer would probably be no.
After all, it’s one thing to ask your neighbor to hold your mail for you when you go on vacation. Another entirely to ask him to pay for the hotel while you’re on that vacation.
We Americans are generous individuals, just look at some of the homespun acts of charity that have occurred in our country over the recent years. Heck, even to folks in other countries whenever there was a horrible disaster we always try to whip in when we can and when people really need it.
That being said, giving our freebies to people who break our laws to try to get into the United States so they can get even more freebies isn’t anywhere close to an amicable proposition.
People around the world pay attention to what’s going on in the United States.
If there’s some sort of free program that can turn you from the equivalent of a poor man to a rich man just by coming to America, you can bet someone will stuff themselves into the trunk of a car and try to get here.
This very same issue has become a major point of conflict in the tax bill.
The House form of the bill is saying that parents must show their own valid social security number to claim the child tax credit.
This keeps anyone illegal from trying to get the tax credit. Sort of like how a restaurant will give you the kid’s eat free promotion but only with the purchase of an adult’s meal.
The Senate completely dropped that whole idea and nobody has decided to take credit for that change in their version of the law.
“Evidence emerged Monday, as Republicans celebrated the Senate’s passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, that small changes were made in the Senate to the bill’s language, which would allow illegal aliens to continue to claim the child tax credit.
“PREVENTING THE USE OF THIS IMPORTANT CREDIT BY ILLEGALS WAS A PRIORITY FOR SOME OF THE REPUBLICAN TAX REFORM PLAN’S MOST ARDENT SUPPORTERS. UNDER EXISTING LAW, ONE DOES NOT NEED A SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER (SSN) TO CLAIM THE BENEFIT BUT CAN SUBSTITUTE AN INDIVIDUAL TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (ITIN), AS ILLEGAL ALIENS FREQUENTLY DO.”
We see the issue, and Congressman Luke Messer gave the solution.
“Rep. Luke Messer (R-IN) made sure that a fix to this long-standing discrepancy was included in the House version of the tax bill. When the bill came out of chairman Kevin Brady’s (R-TX) House Ways and Means Committee, it included the language Messer originally inserted, demanding a credit claimant include ‘the taxpayer’s Social Security number on the return of tax for such taxable year.’ This language would have blocked illegal aliens, who lack real SSNs, from claiming the lucrative benefit.”
Yet, some way or another this provision does not show up in the Senate version.
“Yet when the Senate marked up the bill, the language was tweaked to allow some illegals to continue to claim the benefit. The text of the version the Senate eventually passed reads, ‘No credit shall be allowed under this section to a taxpayer with respect to any qualifying child unless the taxpayer includes the name and Social Security number of such qualifying child on the return of tax for the taxable year’ (emphasis added).
“The difference is not mere semantics. Many illegal aliens have children with SSNs. This includes the U.S.-born children of illegals, commonly known as ‘anchor babies,’ alien children who have U.S. permanent residency, and so-called ‘Dreamers,’ who, while themselves illegal aliens, have SSNs due to former President Barack Obama’s ‘Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals’ (DACA) executive amnesty scheme.”
You can’t have your cake and eat it too. You cannot say that you are going to be tough on illegal immigration and make any attempt to effectively appease illegals. Look at how well appeasement has worked throughout history.
All appeasement happens to be is being locked in a room with a snake, ten other people and trying to negotiate with the snake that you will be eaten last.