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Illegal immigrants need only one number to access billions of dollars in free taxpayer cash.

The Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) unlocks an exclusive gateway for non-citizens to receive monies meant for working, low-income Americans. The nine-digit code was created by bureaucrats in 1996 for foreigners who had to deal with the IRS. It allows people without a Social Security number, including those in the country illegally, to file taxes.

Its just a farce to say it was created to collect taxes, Robert Rector, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News. Its nothing but a welfare program designed for illegal immigrants. ITINS are for tourists or illegals. No ITIN filer is eligible to work in the United States.

The problem with ITIN, critics say, is gives non-citizens access to federal cash that they should not be entitled to receive. Once illegal immigrants file ITIN tax returns, they can apply for a Child Tax Credit which entitles them to $1,000 per child. Unlike the Earned Income Tax Credit, which requires a Social Security Number to qualify, the Child Tax Credit is a cash program that does not.

Critics say that makes it ripe for abuse.

Numerous investigations by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration have chronicled not only improper Child Tax Credit fraud and error payments ranging from $5.9 billion to $7.1 billion, but schemes such as nearly 24,000 ITIN payments going to the same address. The audit reports also found IRS management was not concerned with addressing questionable applications but interested only in the volume of applications that can be processed, regardless of whether they are fraudulent.

Another audit report examining ITIN usage found Child Tax Credit claims more than quadrupled in five years, from $924 million in 2005 to $4.2 billion in 2010.

An agency spokesman said the IRS recently paid $5.7 billion to ITIN for those claiming child tax credit and in 2015 it paid $3.4 billion.

A Social Security number is required to qualify for any federal public benefit. Green card holders, refugees and those granted asylum receive Social Security Numbers. But workers without a Social Security Number can still file taxes and apply for certain tax credits with an ITIN number.

If you dont have a Social Security number, you shouldnt be getting a tax payment, David North of the Center for Immigration Studies told Fox News. It keeps happening and nobody pays attention.

Some are calling for President Trump to close the loophole and require people to obtain a Social Security number in order to receive a Child Tax Credit. North says no such course correction was included in an immigration-related draft order leaked to The Washington Post late January.

The order overlooks one of the largest sources of payments to non-citizens, North said. The federal government should not be subsidizing people who are in this country illegally.

North said the program has little oversight and abuse is not taken seriously.

The Treasury Department is not careful who gets a number, North said. Documents can be obtained through the mail, proving foreign status via a passport or combination of such documents as a VISA, foreign voter ID or school and medical records, without in-person interviews.

IRS IMPROPERLY PAID $15.6 BILLION THROUGH EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT PROGRAM

While congressional attempts to adjust the practice have sputtered, Indiana Congressman Luke Messer is resurrecting an effort to address the issue.

After eight years of the Obama administration, its clear the law isnt clear enough, Messer told Fox News. There is no policy reason why we should be supporting families who are here illegally.

Messers proposal, H.R. 363, would ensure only taxpayers with a valid Social Security number are able to claim the Child Tax Credit.

He says his legislation will save America billions of dollars and could be a method to pay for the wall.

Messer says he hopes to package the law into congressional tax reform efforts but would welcome an administrative fix.

Rector concurs, saying Trump needs to step in and take action.

An executive order could stop this immediately, he said. It violates welfare reform to make these payments to illegal immigrants.

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The Washington Post published an astonishing piece of pro-illegal immigration propaganda on Wednesday, detailing the struggles of illegal aliens living under President Donald Trump.

In Trumps capital, undocumented immigrants live and work in the shadow of the White House, the title of the piece states, before detailing the individual sob stories of five illegal aliens.

I am entitled to be here, unapologetically so.

While no one can deny that there are indeed some illegal aliens residing in the country who are here through no fault of their own, The Posts article is far from an attempt to examine the illegal immigration issue in a balanced and thoughtful way.

Rather, it is a blatant attempt to elicit emotional reactions from readers by depicting illegal aliens squarely as victims of Trumps nefarious aims and it may end up backfiring.

While The Post unequivocallybelieves its efforts will help the cause it so clearly wishes to champion, the article itself is a prime example of the kind of mainstream media chicanery which has left publications like The Post utterly bereft of credibility on major issues in the eyes of the American people.

The first illegal alien introduced to readers is Claudette Monroy, who now fears she may have to leave George Washington University and go back to Mexico. But Monroy isn't some poor victim of her parents' actions like the typical Dreamer paraded by the mainstream media.

"At 15, using a visitor's visa, she came to live with her older sister in Virginia," The Post reports. "'The plan was I was going to finish my freshman year, and I was going to go back to Mexico,' she said. 'Then life happened. I was doing well in school.'"

Monroy was not dragged across the border by criminal parents. Instead, she herself knowingly and willingly decided to commit a criminal act by overstaying her visa.

Later on in the article, the reader is introduced to an individual who is such an obvious representative of the radical far-left agenda one might be forgiven for thinking The Post invented her out of thin air.

Catalina Velasquez is, according to The Post, is the "first transgender undocumented immigrant to graduate from Georgetown University." Velasquez's parents were deported while she was attending Georgetown.

"I have not been able to hug my mother since then," Velasquez told The Post. "Every year is one more Christmas, one more Thanksgiving, one more birthday that I don't get to see them. Sometimes it's debilitating. Sometimes it gives me the strength to say that this shouldn't happen to another family."

The audacity of this comment is breathtaking. The only thing preventing Velasquez from hugging her mother is her refusal to return to her own country. No one is forcing her to stay in the United States.

Her longing for his family may indeed be debilitating, but unlike the countless number of Americans who have lost loved ones to criminal illegal aliens, Velasquezhas the opportunity to see her family again; she simply refuses to take it.

But Velasquez, like all open borders radicals, believes she has a God-given right to reside in a country that isn't hers. "I am entitled to be here, unapologetically so," said Velasquez. Velasquez is not entitled to be here in the slightest, and her claim would likely be taken as offensive to many of theimmigrants in America who came into the country legally.

Not content to merely pick two of the worst possible choices for garnering sympathy for illegal aliens, The Washington Post also decided to accuse the Justice Department of widespread lawlessness, asserting that DOJ officials are actively and willingly violating federal immigration law on a mass scale.

"There are 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. They are taxi drivers who find politicians in their back seats. They are child-care workers who get calls from Justice Department employees who are running late," the article asserts without providing any proof whatsoever.

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Washington Post Pushes Illegal Alien Sob Stories - LifeZette

President Trump reportedly spent a meeting with 10 senators on Thursday complaining about voter fraud. The gathering was intended to be a discussion about Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Politico reported that as soon as reporters exited the room, Trump began telling the group of senators how both he and former Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) who lost her re-election bid and is now serving as a Capitol Hill liaison for Trump on Gorsuch's nomination were victims of a rigged election. Ayotte was in the room, as was White House Counsel Don McGahn.

Trump obviously won the election, but he narrowly lost New Hampshire to Hillary Clinton. He told senators Thursday that was because of the "thousands" of people "brought in on buses" from Massachusetts to "illegally vote" in New Hampshire. The room reportedly responded with an "uncomfortable silence."

Trump indicated that this voter fraud, of which there is no evidence, had also affected Ayotte, though he suggested her loss might have also had something to do with her decision to distance herself from him after he criticized the parents of a Muslim Gold Star soldier. "He told her, 'You'd have won if you'd been on my train," a participant told Politico.

Then, as the cherry on top of that crumbling cake, Trump told Democrats he was glad "Pocahontas" his chosen nickname for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was "becoming the face of 'your party,'" Politico reported.

Trump has repeatedly claimed millions voted illegally in the presidential election, causing him to lose the popular vote to Clinton, but he has yet to produce any evidence to substantiate those claims. Becca Stanek

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After Trump's immigration order, Canada is seeing a spike in illegal ... - The Week Magazine

"It's very painful," Mohamed said.

Mohamed and Bashar Yussuf, who is also from Somalia, said they each paid a smuggler $600 to drop them off on the U.S. side of the border near Emerson, leaving them to trudge through the bush for three hours.

"We made it. And we are happy with that," Yussuf said.

The border is patrolled by Royal Canadian Mounted Police. When officers find a person illegally crossing on foot, they arrest and search that person. If the person wants to make a refugee claim, they are taken to a Canada Border Services Agency location to start the process.

Ghezae Hagos, a protection councilor in Winnipeg, helps people fill out forms to become a refugee and said it's getting busier every week. He said the CBSA doesn't let just anyone in -- and claimants have their fingerprints and photos taken.

"If a person has some security problems, or criminal records they will deal with that. Most of the people that have been coming have been screened," Hagos said.

Local officials in Emerson wonder if people with criminal backgrounds could be slipping through.

"We have to make sure that we protect the integrity of our border, and we don't know who always crossing our border. sometimes they got a really good reason to cross the border but sometimes they are also fleeing other things," said Member of Parliament Ted Falk, whose district includes the area.

Some of those who have crossed the border are getting help from Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council, a refugee resettlement agency. The group's executive director, Rita Chahal, said more in-country claims have been filed with her agency since January 1 than most years altogether.

"We need to start preparing even greater numbers," Chanal told CTV.

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February 9, 2017 About 6.8 million undocumented immigrants are clustered in 20 US urban areas, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center, from 100,000 in the greater Austin area to nearly 1.2 million around New York City.

Many of these localities have so-called sanctuary ordinances that aim to protect illegal immigrants from deportation by not cooperating with or supporting federal authorities efforts to identify them.

An executive order issued on January 25th aims to strip federal funding from sanctuary cities and counties. Sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States willfully violate Federal law in an attempt to shield aliens from removal from the United States, the order argued. These jurisdictions have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our Republic.

Several big-city mayors have already voiced their opposition to Trump's order. For many opponents, the arguments go beyond empathy for undocumented immigrants: Local governments say they have some clear incentives to protect their undocumented residents from deportation. In the view of many police officers, for example, public safety improves when trust in police improves and deportations could do the opposite. "Using local cops as immigration agents, they say, would shut the door on vast communities of immigrants, creating more opportunity for criminal activity, not less," The Christian Science Monitor reported last month.

Theres also the matter of cost. If local authorities arrest someone who turns out to be an undocumented immigrant, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) typically asks the local authorities to hold the individualuntil he or she can be deported. County jail systems often pick up the tab during the waiting period.

But while some areas, like Miami-Dade County in Florida, have decided to comply lest they lose funding, others think the federal government's authority to strip funds is more narrow than commonly feared.

The Pew Report released Thursday points to another layer of complexity in this debate. Among the top 20 metro areas, there was only one Phoenix in which the majority of the area's unauthorized immigrants live in the city itself. Everywhere else, most lived within the metro area, but outside the borders of the main city.This means that the undocumented population of a metropolitan area could fall under the jurisdiction of several city, town, and county governments, each of which could have different types of sanctuary ordinances.

It remains to be seen whether some types of sanctuary ordinances will survive Trumps order better than others and, if so, what the effects on metropolitan areas could be. But some immigrants' rights advocates are confident that localities will have the upper hand.

Sanctuary city policies "have been carefully crafted with federal laws in mind," Grisel Ruiz, a staff attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, told the Monitors Amanda Hoover last month."They can definitely stand a legal challenge in court."

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Amid 'sanctuary city' debate, analysis finds that most illegal immigrants live outside city borders - Christian Science Monitor