Illegal Immigrant Tax Filings
Reporting on the Trump administration’s plan to use IRS data to enforce laws against illegal immigration, CNN claims that “millions of undocumented immigrants register with the IRS and pay billions of dollars in federal taxes each year.”
IN FACT, nearly all illegal immigrants who register with the IRS do so to claim refundable child tax credits, a form of cash welfare. On net, these tax filers received at least $4.0 billion more in welfare than they paid in taxes in 2010.
