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Illegal Immigrants and Federal Income Taxes
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APA
Agresti, J. D. (2016, November 7). Illegal Immigrants and Federal Income Taxes. Retrieved from
https://www.justfactsdaily.com/illegal-immigrants-and-federal-income-taxes/
MLA
Agresti, James D. “Illegal Immigrants and Federal Income Taxes.”
Just Facts. 7 November 2016. Web. 12 February 2019.<
https://www.justfactsdaily.com/illegal-immigrants-and-federal-income-taxes/>.
Chicago (for footnotes)
James D. Agresti, “Illegal Immigrants and Federal Income Taxes.”
Just Facts. November 7, 2016.
https://www.justfactsdaily.com/illegal-immigrants-and-federal-income-taxes/.
Chicago (for bibliographies)
Agresti, James D. “Illegal Immigrants and Federal Income Taxes.”
Just Facts. November 7, 2016.
https://www.justfactsdaily.com/illegal-immigrants-and-federal-income-taxes/.
By James D. Agresti
November 7, 2016
In the last presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump,
Clinton said that “half of all” illegal immigrants in the U.S. “actually pay federal income tax.”
PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact check organization, investigated Clinton’s claim and
reported: “While there is no official figure, experts estimate that about half of all undocumented workers pay federal income taxes, if not more.”
In reality, the polar opposite is true. Federal government data shows that while roughly half of illegal immigrants file federal tax returns, the vast majority of them don’t pay any federal income taxes. Instead, they use these returns to claim refundable tax credits, which are a form of cash welfare. In other words, illegal immigrants mainly use the federal income tax code to collect money from U.S. citizens.
https://www.justfactsdaily.com/illegal-immigrants-and-federal-income-taxes/