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jobs magnet remains the strongest incentive for illegal immigration, eligibility for certain benets normally reserved for citizens and lawful residents can also encourage illegal aliens to break our laws and live comfortably in the United States. Federal, state, and local laws that allow illegal aliens access to ofcial identication credentials, Social Security, in-state college tuition, subsidized housing, and other benets send a message that illegal aliens are welcome and that we are not serious about our immigration laws. The annual net cost to U.S. taxpayers of subsidizing the mostly low-skilled illegal population is estimated at almost $20,000 per illegal household. This section charts House and Senate bills and joint resolutions in two subcategories: General Rewards, which includes in-state tuition, Social Security benets, housing, and other similar benets; and Identication Documents; including drivers licenses, state-issued ID cards, and Matricula cards. Each subcategory is organized by whether or not the legislation provides or reduces rewards for illegal immigration. See: http://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/illegal-immigration/rewards-illegalimmigration.html-0 September 2011 - Feds arrest nearly 3,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records See: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/64688.html In Montgomery County, MD that population has over 17% illegal immigrants See: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2011/09/washington-region-heavilypopulated-non-citizens?utm_source=Local%20news%20send%20929%20%2009/29/2011&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner: %20Local%20News

Rewards for Illegal Immigration = Hundreds of Billions in US Taxpayer Dollars Spent

Largely as a result of activists' lobbying efforts, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed a bill this year that grants illegal immigrants lower tuition rates at state universities and colleges. The Washington Post - Illegal immigrants, illegal benefits Published: September 23, 2011 The Sept. 18 editorial Hopes, dreams and Policy 45003 praised Montgomery College for being an outlier in giving taxpayer-subsidized tuition benefits to illegal aliens. The college is an outlier because it is an outlaw, a point the editorial did not address. Federal law prohibits such benefits unless they are specifically provided by a state legislature. Likewise, Maryland law requires that tuition be based on a students lawful residence, which illegal aliens are unable to establish in the state. The Maryland Dream Act, which specifically provides in-state or in-county tuition rates for illegal aliens, is on hold and may be subject to a referendum by voters on Election Day 2012. But the trustees of Montgomery College seem to want to write their own rules, no matter the law. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/illegal-immigrants-illegal-benefits/ 2011/09/22/gIQAc2oRrK_story.html The Washington Examiner - How to stop child-tax credit fraud by illegal immigrants By: Rep. Sam Johnson | 09/18/11 8:05 Pm Oped Contributor A recent government report revealed that illegal immigrants improperly received billions in taxpayer dollars because of an easy-to-fix loophole in the federal income tax code. The tax benefit at the heart of the debate is the popular child tax credit, which can reduce a parent's tax bill by up to $1,000 per child. Because this credit is refundable, parents who owe no taxes can receive cash back from the government for their children through the tax code. Because the

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credit has been expanded over the years to help people make ends meet in the recession, the number of people claiming the credit has skyrocketed. Defying common sense, this refundable tax credit can be provided to an illegal immigrant as long as the immigrant is able to obtain an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number from the Internal Revenue Service. The new report shows that in 2010, the government's award of $4.2 billion through the credit to illegal immigrants was up from $924 million in 2005. In 2010, illegal immigrants received about 15 percent of the total $28.3 billion awarded through child tax credits. That's just wrong. Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/ opinion/op-eds/2011/09/how-stop-child-tax-credit-fraud-illegalimmigrants#ixzz1ZMlfZNga

CHECKLIST OF FEDERAL BENEFIT PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO DOCUMENTED AND UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS: See: http://www.workingforamerica.org/documents/checklist.asp State University Tuitions Federal law passed in 1996 prohibits illegal aliens from receiving in-state tuition rates at public institutions of higher education. Specically, Section 505 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (Title 8, Chapter 14, Sec. 1623(a)) states: "an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State (or a political subdivision) for any postsecondary education benet unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benet (in no less an amount, duration, and scope) without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident." See: http://www.naid.org/otheraid/undocumented.phtml The High Cost of Cheap Labor Illegal Immigration and the Federal Budget Executive Summary This study is one of the rst to estimate the total impact of illegal immigration on the federal budget. Most previous studies have focused on the state and local level and have examined only costs or tax payments, but not both. Based on Census Bureau data, this study nds that, when all taxes paid (direct and indirect) and all costs are considered, illegal households created a net scal decit at the federal level of more

Rewards for Illegal Immigration = Hundreds of Billions in US Taxpayer Dollars Spent than $10 billion in 2002. We also estimate that, if there was an amnesty for illegal aliens, the net scal decit would grow to nearly $29 billion. Among the ndings: Households headed by illegal aliens imposed more than $26.3 billion in costs on the federal government in 2002 and paid only $16 billion in taxes, creating a net scal decit of almost $10.4 billion, or $2,700 per illegal household. Among the largest costs are Medicaid ($2.5 billion); treatment for the uninsured ($2.2 billion); food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches ($1.9 billion); the federal prison and court systems ($1.6 billion); and federal aid to schools ($1.4 billion). With nearly two-thirds of illegal aliens lacking a high school degree, the primary reason they create a scal decit is their low education levels and resulting low incomes and tax payments, not their legal status or heavy use of most social services. On average, the costs that illegal households impose on federal coffers are less than half that of other households, but their tax payments are only one-fourth that of other households. Many of the costs associated with illegals are due to their American-born children, who are awarded U.S. citizenship at birth. Thus, greater efforts at barring illegals from federal programs will not reduce costs because their citizen children can continue to access them. If illegal aliens were given amnesty and began to pay taxes and use services like households headed by legal immigrants with the same education levels, the estimated annual net scal decit would increase from $2,700 per household to nearly $7,700, for a total net cost of $29 billion. Costs increase dramatically because unskilled immigrants with legal status -- what most illegal aliens would become -- can access government programs, but still tend to make very modest tax payments. Although legalization would increase average tax payments by 77 percent, average costs would rise by 118 percent. The fact that legal immigrants with few years of schooling are a large scal drain does not mean that legal immigrants overall are a net drain -- many legal immigrants are highly skilled. The vast majority of illegals hold jobs. Thus the scal decit they create for the federal government is not the result of an unwillingness to work.

Rewards for Illegal Immigration = Hundreds of Billions in US Taxpayer Dollars Spent The results of this study are consistent with a 1997 study by the National Research Council, which also found that immigrants' education level is a key determinant of their scal impact. A Complex Fiscal Picture Welfare use. Our ndings show that many of the preconceived notions about the scal impact of illegal households turn out to be inaccurate. In terms of welfare use, receipt of cash assistance programs tends to be very low, while Medicaid use, though signicant, is still less than for other households. Only use of food assistance programs is signicantly higher than that of the rest of the population. Also, contrary to the perceptions that illegal aliens don't pay payroll taxes, we estimate that more than half of illegals work "on the books." On average, illegal households pay more than $4,200 a year in all forms of federal taxes. Unfortunately, they impose costs of $6,950 per household. See: http://cis.org/articles/2004/scalexec.html

Illegal Immigration Costs California Over Ten BillionAnnually State's "cheap labor" costs average household $1,183 ayear ByRobert Longley United States Immigration Illegal Immigrants Dateline: December, 2004

Rewards for Illegal Immigration = Hundreds of Billions in US Taxpayer Dollars Spent

In hosting America's largest population of illegal immigrants, California bears a huge cost to provide basic human services for this fast growing, low-income segment of its population.A new study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examines the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concludes that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year. Among the key nding of the report are that the state's already struggling K-12 education system spends approximately $7.7 billion a year to school the children of illegal aliens who now constitute 15 percent of the student body. Another $1.4 billion of the taxpayers' money goes toward providing health care to illegal aliens and their families, the same amount that is spent incarcerating illegal aliens criminals. See: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrationnaturalizatio/a/caillegals.htm Illegal Immigration The $113 Billion Dollar Drain on the American Taxpayer Sunday, September 25th, 2011 at 2:43 am A study released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) estimates that illegal immigration now costs federal and local taxpayers $113 billion a year. The report,The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on U.S. Taxpayers, is the most comprehensive analysis of how much the estimated 13 million illegal aliens and their U.S.-born children cost the federal, state and local governments. VIDEO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8lLU7XjcWc&feature=player_embedded#! See: http://www.illegalimmigrationstatistics.org/illegal-immigration-a-113-billion-a-yeardrain Benets for Illegal Aliens: Some Program Costs Increasing, But Total Costs Unknown T-HRD-93-33 September 29, 1993 FullReport(PDF, 18 pages) Summary The benets available to illegal aliens and their U.S. citizen children make up a small but rising percentage of costs for some government programs, such as Medicaid, public education, and food stamps. Existing cost estimates, however, provide at best a sketchy picture of the situation. Illegal aliens are not required to reveal their status to receive some benets; in other cases, ofcials are prohibited from asking about alien status. National cost data are only available for welfare benets, which in scal year 1992 totaled $479 million for illegal aliens with children who are U.S. citizens. The ve states

Rewards for Illegal Immigration = Hundreds of Billions in US Taxpayer Dollars Spent accounting for nearly 80 percent of the illegal immigrant population--California, Texas, New York, Illinois, and Florida--pegged the total cost of federal, state, and local aid to illegal aliens at about $2.9 billion. The costs of providing these benets appear to be on the upswing. These cost estimates, however, exclude government revenues attributable to illegal aliens. See: http://www.gao.gov/products/T-HRD-93-33 This document summarizes the immigrant eligibility restrictions under the following laws: the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, [PRWORA PL104-193], as amended by the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act [Immigration Law PL 104-208] the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 [PL105-33], the Agricultural Research, Extension and Education Reform Act of 1998 [PL105-185], the Noncitizen Benet Clarication and Other Technical Amendments Act of 1998 [PL105-306], the Trafcking Victims Protection Act of 2000 [PL 106-386], the Food Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2002 [PL 107-171], the SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act [PL 110-328], and the Childrens Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 [PL 111-3]. PRWORA restricts access by some legal immigrants to certain programs and denies access by undocumented immigrants to many government funded programs. Immigrants remain eligible for benets and services, however, unless specically restricted as indicated below. (Citation to sections below refer to PRWORA, unless noted.) See: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/immigration/restrictions-sum.shtml

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Rewards for Illegal Immigration = Hundreds of Billions in US Taxpayer Dollars Spent