{"id":25126,"date":"2021-10-18T13:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=25126"},"modified":"2021-10-18T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T17:28:44","slug":"child-tax-credit-immigrant-welfare-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2021\/10\/18\/child-tax-credit-immigrant-welfare-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Immigration Drives Child Tax Credit Bonanza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The most underreported provision in Democrats\u2019 multitrillion-dollar spending package is a vastly expanded Child Tax Credit<\/a>, which would deliver an estimated $25.4 billion to legal and illegal immigrant families in this country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though framed in technocratic terms as an upgrade of the existing Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC), the new CTC is essentially a guaranteed income program<\/a>. Expanded monthly cash disbursements of up to $300 for each dependent would go to families that do not pay any income tax. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abolishing the current program\u2019s work requirements, CTC would spend $95 billion<\/a> annually on cash payments, about three times ACTC levels. An estimated 57 percent of legal immigrant-headed families with children would get cash from the new program, as would 79 percent of illegal immigrant-headed families. By comparison, 52 percent of native-headed families would receive payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immigrants\nrepresent an outsized share of recipients because they are generally less\neducated and lower skilled. Illegal aliens who work are easily exploited in a\nshadow economy where pay is low and benefits are nonexistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen\nimmigrants end up making heavy use [of CTC]we should remember that they\nreceive benefits not because of laziness or any other kind of character defect.\nRather, immigrants use welfare simply because they have low incomes in a\ncountry that transfers a lot of money to low-income people, especially those\nwith children,\u201d remarks Steve Camarota, research director at the Center for\nImmigration Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If child\npoverty demands such large, no-strings-attached cash transfers, liberal\nimmigration policies figure into the problem, and must be part of the\ndiscussion, Camarota notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can\neither hold down the cost of such transfers in the future by enforcing our laws\nagainst illegal immigration and by reforming the legal selection system to\nemphasize skills, or we can resign ourselves to live with the social,\npolitical and fiscal consequences of constantly adding to the low-income\npopulation through current immigration policy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nchoice seems clear. And congressional Democrats, in defiance of logic and\npublic opinion, are choosing immigration policies that will further their\nobjective of massive government engineered income distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The most underreported provision in Democrats\u2019 multitrillion-dollar spending package is a vastly expanded Child Tax Credit, which would deliver an estimated $25.4 billion to legal and illegal immigrant families in this country. Though framed in technocratic terms as an upgrade of the existing Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC), the new CTC is essentially a guaranteed<\/p>\n

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