GOP: "No Tax Break for Illegal Immigrants'

The Treasury Department says that in the 2010 filing year more than $4 billion in child credit refunds went to 2.3 million people who filed tax returns but did not have Social Security numbers to prove they were citizens or legal workers.

The US Treasury Dept says refunds went to 2.3 million people who did not have Social Security numbers. And it is currently legal only because legislation was enacted to make it legal.

Better...

If you're illegal you have no SS number, so filing a tax return will be difficult.

There are countless ILLEGAL aliens, using Social Security numbers fraudulently. Many are from deceased Americans.

They are here unlawfully, every day. Breaking other laws does not seem to get in their way.

Yep and the minute you call them on it every enabler in the country is all over your case. This has become a situation of domestic traitors enabling the to break our laws versus legal citizens trying to preserve them. There are many of arguments being brought out as to why they should be allowed to continue this invasion of our country and not one of them addresses the laws being broken at will or the consequences, long term.

Nailed it, FINutmegger!

Those that continue to allow the invasion of our country are Sympathizers...

Yep! Back in my day we had a name for those who deliberately set about detroying their native country from within and I used it once and got banned for it.

The solution is simple and cost-effective: lock up those who provide illegal jobs with mandatory sentences. Three strikes and you're in jail for life. The illegal labor market will collapse in months. However, the enablers of this vast illegal labor market won't have it, and they're the ones in power in Washington. Lock up the CEO's of Dole and Tyson, and the rest will fall in line.

Putting two men in jail is a lot more effective and efficient than trying to deport thousands upon thousands, just to have them turn around and return for the same illegal jobs that lured them here in the first place. As above, it's not going to happen: the rich and powerful like their cheap labor a lot. It drives up profits as it drives down wages for Americans. Sweet deal, if you're rich and powerful. Sucks for every one who is not.

every enabler in the country is all over your case.

The enablers would be those who benefit from using cheap labor subsidized by US taxpayers. The enablers would include the GOP in federal and state governments currently working to overturn child labor laws in the US.

The illegals even have their own national defense team that fight and overturn US laws against illegal immigration called MALDEF. It's website says "The Latino Legal Voice for Civil Rights in America".

http://www.maldef.org/

There is even the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

http://www.linkedin.com/company/united-states-hispanic-chamber-of-commerce

In 1979, several dedicated Hispanic leaders realized the need for a national organization to represent the Hispanic business community before the public and private sectors. Since its inception, the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) has enjoyed outstanding working relationships with international Heads of State, Members of Congress and White House Administrations. Through its network of more than 200 local Hispanic Chambers of Commerce and Hispanic business organizations, the USHCC has been a key player in economic development, technical assistance, business relationships and partnerships, international trade, and legislation, policies and programs for the Hispanic business community.

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and government info on Mexico/US relations

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32724.pdf

The economic decline in the United States also resulted in declining remittance flows to Mexico. Remittances fell to an estimated $21.2 billion, the lowest level since 2005

In recent years, Congress has played an increasingly active role in shaping U.S.-Mexican relations through funding and overseeing the Mérida Initiative36, an anticrime and counterdrug assistance package first funded in FY2008. Prior to that time, Mexico, a middle income country, had not been a major recipient of U.S. foreign assistance. As a result of the Mérida Initiative, U.S. assistance to Mexico rose from $65 million in FY2007 to almost $406 million in FY2008. T

To date, Congress has appropriated a total of more than $1.6 billion for Mexico under the Mérida Initiative. Legislative action on Mérida appropriations has included the following.

It is estimated that between $19 billion and $29 billion in illicit proceeds flow from the United States to drug trafficking organizations and other organized criminal groups in Mexico each year

The Mexican government has actively promoted migrants’ rights internationally and the rights of Mexican migrants in the United States

The Mexican government further acknowledges that Mexican workers will continue to emigrate until there are more opportunities in Mexico. The February 2006 resolution remains the most detailed explanation to date of the major principles behind Mexico’s policy on immigration. President Calderón expressed similar sentiments on immigration during his address to a joint session of Congress in May 2010.

Mexican officials regularly voice concern about alleged abuses suffered by Mexican workers in the United States, and for the loss of life and hardships suffered by Mexican migrants as they utilize increasingly dangerous routes to circumvent tighter border controls. Despite these concerns, Mexico benefits from unauthorized migration to the United States in at least two ways: (1) it is a “safety valve” that dissipates the political discontent that could arise from higher unemployment in Mexico, and (2) it is a source of remittances sent by workers in the United States to families in Mexico

Illegals don't fear much in the US except being caught up in the token raid meant to show US citizens that the government is enforcing immigration law ... which it isn't.

The US government knows who the majority of illegal aliens work for and could have put a stop to this any time they wanted to.

Some facts about how tough the GOP was on illegal immigration during the Bush years ...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=37934

A single employer filed 37,375 W-2 forms in tax year 2005 on which the Social Security Number and the name did not match. These "no-match" W-2 forms often -- but not always -- represent an illegal-alien worker fraudulently using someone else's Social Security number or a fake number.

According to the inspector general, there were about 1,650 employers that filed more than 500 no-match W-2s in 2005. In fact, these 1,650 employers filed a total of about 2.6 million no-match W-2s in 2005, meaning they filed an average of 1,576 per employer.

To those unfamiliar with this issue, this might seem like an astounding number. If you care to double-check it, go to the Website of the inspector general of the Social Security Administration and look up the December 2008 audit report titled, "Effectiveness of Educational Correspondence to Employers." The number for the report is A-03-07-17105.

In October 2004, the SSA inspector general filed an audit report analyzing the 100 employers that had filed the largest number of bad W-2s in the five years from 1997-2001. The inspector general did not name these "Top 100" bad W-2 filers but did cite the states in which they were located.

America's No. 1 filer of bad W-2s was an Illinois-based company that filed 131,991 no-match W-2s from 1997-2001, for an average of 26,398 per year. The No. 2 filer of bad W-2s was a Texas-based company that filed 108,302 no-match W-2s from 1997-2001, for an average of 21,600 per year.

The Illinois employer, according to the inspector general, paid $5.4 billion in wages to employees whose Social Security numbers did not match their names.

The employer could have been paying that money to Americans and permanent legal residents entitled to work in the U.S. who have valid Social Security numbers and are quite happy to give them to their employers.

SSA will not give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the names of the employers who file massive numbers of no-match W-2s because they say that is protected tax information under Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code. Under the George W. Bush administration, DHS promulgated a regulation that instructed employers in how they could find "safe harbor" from having SSA's no-match letters used against them as evidence that they had knowingly hired illegal aliens. But a federal court in California suspended this regulation in 2008, and Secretary Napolitano rescinded it last year.

Note in reference to comment 7.1. The media paints a picture of illegal aliens working only as housekeepers, gardeners, on farms and in restaurants. Really? The vast majority are working steady jobs in factories and private/government construction projects across this country.

http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/03/6345519-odds-someone-else-has-your-ssn-one-in-7

What are the odds someone else has used your Social Security number? One in 7.

That's the stunning conclusion of a San Diego company's analysis of 290 million Social Security numbers, which found that 40 million of them have been attached to more than one name. The study, conducted by the fraud-fighting firm ID Analytics, is the first of its kind that's been made available to the public.

The IRS often knows when this happens, when the imposter pays taxes. The Social Security Administration knows, too, for the same reason. And the nation's credit bureaus usually know, because the imposter often ends up applying for some form of credit. Plenty of financial institutions also have access to this information.

But no one is telling you. In short, all these government agencies and financial firms don't think you have a right to know.

ID Analytics is a data collection firm that specializes in helping companies separate imposters from honest consumers. Its client list is long, and includes many major financial firms as well as the Social Security Administration. Over the past decade, it has amassed files on virtually every American who is active in the financial system. It now tracks 290 million Social Security numbers and nearly 300 million people.

But millions of those SSNs are being used to commit fraud. Some cases are obvious. More than 140,000 SSNs are associated with five or more people, and 27,000 are connected to 10 or more people, for example.

"Once an SSN is connected to even three people, it's pretty clear something is wrong," he said. The firm found that 5 million SSNs have been connected to three or more people.