Moreover, the Inspector
General released a report last year showing that illegal aliens received an
astounding $4.2 billion in taxpayer dollars by claiming the ACTC in 2010.
ANOTHER OBAMA HANDOUT TO ILLEGALS?
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration released a
report last week indicating that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) managers
discouraged their employees from detecting illegal alien tax fraud. (Fox News, Aug. 9, 2012)
The latest Treasury Inspector General report legitimizes years
of employee complaints about deficiencies in the Individual Taxpayer
Identification Number (ITIN) application review and verification process.
Although illegal aliens are unauthorized to work in the U.S., they are required
to comply with federal tax laws. As a result, the IRS grants illegal aliens
ITINs to allow them to file tax returns.
However, the report reveals that IRS management “has not
established adequate internal controls to detect and prevent the assignment of
an ITIN to individuals submitting questionable applications.” (See TIGTA Report
2012-42-081 at p.
6, July 16, 2012) According to the Inspector General's findings, IRS management
has:
·
Created an environment which discourages tax examiners
responsible for reviewing ITIN applications from identifying questionable
applications;
·
Eliminated successful processes used to identify
questionable ITIN application fraud patterns and schemes; and
·
Established processes and procedures that are inadequate
to verify each applicant's identity and foreign status. (Id.)
In particular, the report notes that IRS management cares more
about quickly processing ITIN applications than ensuring it grants ITINs to
only qualifying individuals. The report reads, “The lack of emphasis on
identifying questionable applications is demonstrated by the processing time
periods set for tax examiner review of the applications, the lack of extensive
training on identifying questionable applications, and the criteria tax
examiners are required to follow when identifying an application as
questionable.” (Id. at p. 6) Even more telling of the IRS' unwillingness
to stop fraud, the report notes that even if criteria and training were
adequate, IRS protocol makes it unrealistic to expect employees to be able to
identify fraudulent applications because the IRS accepts mere copies of
supporting documentation rather than requiring the original document or a
certified copy. (Id. at p. 7) The report concludes that as a result of
such policies, the IRS ends up assigning ITINs to individuals with fraudulent
applications — primarily illegal aliens — which enables them to commit tax
fraud.
Alarmingly, the IRS has known of such tax fraud for at least a
decade, following a September 2002 report revealing that illegal aliens had
been using ITINs to collect the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC). Under the
ACTC, illegal aliens can receive tax refunds even if they did not pay any
taxes themselves. Because of this, the Inspector General said, “it is
essential that the IRS have adequate processes and procedures that ensure only
qualified and eligible individuals are assigned an ITIN.” (Id.)
Nonetheless, cases of illegal aliens committing ACTC fraud are
rampant. Earlier this year, an investigation by an Indianapolis news station
uncovered that illegal aliens working unlawfully in the U.S. were claiming the
tax credit for minor relatives — primarily nieces and nephews — living outside
of the country, in Mexico. The Indianapolis reporter also spoke with an illegal
alien who revealed that multiple illegal aliens had been scamming taxpayers by
using the same address to claim the ACTC for 20 minors, when in fact only one
child actually lived at the given address. His explanation: “If the opportunity
is there and they [the government] can give it to me, why not take advantage of
it?” (NBC wthr.com, July 5, 2012)
Moreover, the Inspector
General released a report last year showing that illegal aliens received an
astounding $4.2 billion in taxpayer dollars by claiming the ACTC in 2010. (See TIGTA Report 2011-41-061, July 7, 2011; see
also FAIR Legislative Update, Sept. 6, 2011)Although
several Members of Congress have introduced bills to eliminate the ability of
illegal aliens to receive this tax credit by requiring a valid social security
number, Congressional leadership refuses to act
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Illegal Aliens Grab BILLIONS in Lucrative Tax Scandal!
I'd
like to ask you a simple question: do you support your tax money going directly
into the hands of illegal aliens? Last year the government forked over more
than $4.2 billion to illegal aliens through the Additional
Child Tax Credit (ACTC) -- a credit designed to help American families.
1 Trailer + 4 Illegal Aliens + 20
"Dependents" = $29,608 of YOUR money
FAIR kept you in the loop
about the misuse of the ACTC by illegal aliens. But recently, a whistle-blower out of
Indiana sparked a local exposé on the abuse of this tax credit. The stories are
shocking! Illegal aliens claiming up to 9 nieces and nephews in one tax
return. One trailer in Indiana claimed 20 nieces and nephews between 4
illegal aliens and grabbed $29,608 in tax returns. When approached, the illegal
alien admitted 19 of these children lived in Mexico and had never set foot in
America. When asked why, he shrugged saying he did it because he could!
I urge you to see the story for yourself here.
FAIR has been working on Capitol Hill to close this
loophole and require anyone who receives this benefit to be here legally.
I need to know that we have your support. Should we continue to allow OUR tax
money to be funneled to illegal aliens through the fraudulent misuse of
tax-credits? The House has already passed a provision to require a valid social
security number to receive this benefit, but we're facing heavy resistance in
the Senate. That's why we need your help now! Cutting off billions of
dollars to illegal aliens is not partisan politics; it's the responsible thing
to do.
Thanks to your generous support, FAIR has been
fighting for the rights of Americans for over 30 years. Our credibility and
integrity as a public advocacy group is well known in Washington and around the
nation. We have built the lasting relationships with legislators and are
working with our friends in Congress to close this outrageous and costly
loophole once and for all, but we need your help! Your $25, $50, $100 tax-deductible donation will help us
save Americans billions of dollars and continue the FAIR fight to restore
justice to our immigration system.
My sincere thanks,
Dan Stein, President
P.S. You can also mail your tax-deductible
contribution to FAIR at 25 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Suite 330 Washington
D.C. 20001, Attn: Membership.
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Millions Of Illegal Immigrants Are Using A
Massive Scam To Get Bigger Tax Refunds Than You Are
Did you know that illegal
immigrants all over the United States are using a massive scam to receive tax
refunds from the federal government that are often in excess of $10,000? It is
estimated that 2 million illegal immigrants are filing fraudulent tax returns
each year and that they are pulling in more than 4 billion dollars
in tax refunds every year that they are not entitled to. They are doing this by
abusing the additional child tax credit and the IRS knows all about it and yet
they refuse to do anything to stop it. Illegal immigrants are filing tax
returns that sometimes claim 10 or 12 nieces and nephews as dependents, and
most of the time those nieces and nephews do not even live in the United
States. So while you and I are being taxed into oblivion, many illegal
immigrants are often pulling in tax refunds that are well into five figures. At
a time when the federal government is absolutely drowning in debt, this is the
type of fraud that desperately needs to be cracked down on, and yet the IRS
refuses to take action.
Posted below is the
shocking investigation by WTHR in Indianapolis that broke this story wide open. If you have not seen this
yet, it is definitely worth the 6 minutes that it takes to
watch it. Please share it with as many people as you can. It boggles the mind
to think that this kind of fraud can be committed right out in the open and yet
the IRS will not take action. You can watch this shocking investigation right here....
So how in the world can
illegal immigrants file tax returns without a Social Security number?
Well, the IRS says that
everyone must file a tax return - even people that are making money illegally.
So illegal immigrants are
given an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN).
Like a Social Security
number, it contains nine digits and it is used by U.S. employers to withhold
taxes and it is used by illegal immigrants to file their tax returns.
You might be thinking
that this sounds completely insane considering the fact that it is illegal for
them to have jobs in the United States, and you would be right.
But this is how the
system works.
And it turns out that
illegal immigrants have been exploiting the additional child tax credit to
receive absolutely huge tax refunds.
Recently, a tax preparer
up in Indiana blew the whistle on this whole thing. A WorldNetDaily article about this scam contained some absolutely mind blowing
quotes from this whistleblower....
“We’ve
seen sometimes 10 or 12 dependents, most times nieces and nephews, on these tax
forms,” a tax preparer-turned-whistleblower told WTHR News. “The more you put
on there, the more you get back.”
“Here’s
a return right here: we’ve got a $10,300 refund for nine nieces and nephews.”
“We’re
getting an $11,000 refund on this tax return. There’s seven nieces and
nephews,” he said, pointing to another set of documents. “I can bring out
stacks and stacks. It’s just so easy it’s ridiculous.”
Last year, the whistleblower
alerted the IRS to dozens of examples of illegal immigrants using this scam.
So what happened?
Absolutely nothing.
The IRS took no action.
But they seem to have
plenty of time to come after you and I, don't they?
The WTHR investigation
mentioned above discovered one instance in which it was claimed that a total of
20 children lived in one trailer in Indiana.
Because of tax credits
for those children, a total of $29,608 was paid out to several illegal
immigrant workers.
But when a reporter from
WTHR went to the trailer, he found that only one girl actually lived there.
What makes all of this
even worse is that the IRS has known about this problem for years.
In fact, the IRS has not
taken action on this problem despite report after report from the Inspector
General.
Amazingly, the IRS seems
to believe that there is not even a problem. The following is from a statement
that the IRS issued to WTHR....
“The
law has been clear for over a decade that eligibility for these credits does
not depend on work authorization status or the type of taxpayer identification
number used. Any suggestion that the IRS shouldn’t be paying out these credits
under current law to ITIN holders is simply incorrect. The IRS administers the
law impartially and applies it as it is written. If the law were changed, the
IRS would change its programs accordingly.
“The
IRS disagrees with TIGTA’s (inspector general) recommendation on requiring
additional documentation to verify child-credit claims. As TIGTA acknowledges
in this report, the IRS does not currently have the legal authority to verify
and disallow the Child Tax Credit and the Additional Child Tax Credit during
return processing simply because of the lack of documentation.
“The
IRS has procedures in place specifically for the evaluation of questionable
credit claims early in the processing stream and prior to issuance of a refund.
The IRS continues to work to refine and improve our processes.”
Can you believe that?
So next year millions of
illegal immigrants will once again rake in billions of dollars that they are
not entitled to and the IRS will continue to look the other way.
This is yet another
example of how the federal government has different rules for illegal
immigrants than they have for the rest of us.
In fact, the Obama administration
has now instructed government officials to use "prosecutorial discretion" in deportation cases. In essence what that means is
that if an illegal immigrant has not been convicted of a crime, it will now be
highly unlikely that he or she will be deported.
Over the past several
decades, we have seen tens of millions of illegal immigrants
come pouring into our country. They have taken our jobs and they have
terrorized our communities. There are now 1.4 million gang members in the United
States, and that number has increased by 40 percent
since 2009. Most of that increase is due to illegal immigration.
Illegal immigration is
one of the biggest national security threats that we face, and yet the federal
government continues to look the other way.
Has the federal government
gone completely insane?
THE MEXICAN CRIME
TIDAL WAVE SPREADS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES
Everyday there are 12 Americans murdered by Mexicans and 8
children molested!
California Attorney Gen Kamala Harris announced that nearly
HALF of all murders in Mex-occupied CA are by MEX GANGS!
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WILL MEXICO BANKRUPT
AMERICA?
CALIFORNIA UNDER
MEXICAN-OCCUPATION PAYS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO
ILLEGALS!
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WILL OHIO BE
BANKRUPTED BY THE LA RAZA MEX-OCCUPATION THAT NOT ONE LEGAL VOTED FOR?
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HOW MANY BILLIONS ARE
MARYLANDERS FORCED TO PAY FOR MEX WELFARE AND LOOTING?
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BARACK OBAMA, FIRST
HISPANDERING LA RAZA “THE RACE” PRESIDENT – HIS LA RAZA SUPREMACIST INFESTED
ADMINISTRATION:
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OBAMA AND MEXICO
PROMISE ILLEGALS JUMPING OUR BORDERS OBAMACARE, “FREE” MEDICAL, “FREE” ANCHOR
BABY BIRTHING = 18 YEARS WELFARE, AND OUR JOBS!
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ROBERT RECTOR: THE
STAGGERING COST OF MEXICO’S INVASION, OCCUPATION AND EVER GROWING WELFARE STATE
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ONE OF MEXICO’S
BIGGEST EXPORTS NEXT TO DRUGS, AND CRIMINALS ARE PREGNANT WOMEN. THESE POOR
DESPERATE WOMEN JUMP OUR BORDERS FOR “FREE” ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING = 18 YEARS OF
WELFARE FOR EACH CHILD.
THE CHILDREN BORN OF
MEXICANS THAT ILLEGALLY CROSSED OUR BORDERS IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN BUT STILL A
CITIZEN OF MEXICO.
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THE LOOTING OF
AMERICA BY MEXICO, BARACK OBAMA and ERIC HOLDER
OBAMA’S
HISPANICAZATION of AMERICA:
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ANCHOR BABIES – HOW
MEXICO ANCHORS THEIR OCCUPATION AND EXPAND THEIR WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!
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FIFTEEN THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT LA RAZA “THE RACE”
by Michelle Malkin
Only in America could critics of a group called
"The Race" be labeled racists. Such is the triumph of left-wing
identity chauvinists, whose aggressive activists and supine abettors have
succeeded in redefining all opposition as "hate."
Both Barack Obama and John McCain will speak this
week in San Diego at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza,
the Latino organization whose name is Spanish for, yes, "The Race."
Can you imagine Obama and McCain paying homage to a group of white people who
called themselves that? No matter. The presidential candidates and the media
have legitimized "The Race" as a mainstream ethnic lobbying group and
marginalized its critics as intolerant bigots. The unvarnished truth is that the
group is a radical ethnic nationalist outfit that abuses your tax dollars and
milks PC politics to undermine our sovereignty.
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Here are 15 things you should know about "The Race":
15. "The Race" supports driver's licenses for illegal aliens.
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14."The Race" demands in-state tuition
discounts for illegal alien students that are not available to law-abiding U.S.
citizens and law-abiding legal immigrants.
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13. "The Race" vehemently opposes
cooperative immigration enforcement efforts between local, state and federal
authorities.
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12. "The Race" opposes a secure fence on the southern border.
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11. "The Race" joined the American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee in a failed lawsuit attempt to prevent the feds
from entering immigration information into a key national crime database -- and
to prevent local police officers from accessing the data.
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10. "The Race" opposed the state of
Oklahoma's tough immigration-enforcement-first laws, which cut off welfare to
illegal aliens, put teeth in employer sanctions and strengthened local-federal
cooperation and information sharing.
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9. "The Race" joined other open-borders,
anti-assimilationists and sued to prevent Proposition 227, California's
bilingual education reform ballot initiative, from becoming law.
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8. "The Race" bitterly protested common-sense voter ID provisions as an "absolute disgrace."
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7. "The Race" has consistently opposed post-9/11 national security measures at every turn.
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6. Former "Race" president Raul Yzaguirre,
Hillary Clinton's Hispanic outreach adviser, said this: "U.S. English is
to Hispanics as the Ku Klux Klan is to blacks." He was referring to U.S.
English, the nation's oldest, largest citizens' action group dedicated to
preserving the unifying role of the English language in the United States.
"The Race" also pioneered Orwellian open-borders Newspeak and advised
the Mexican government on how to lobby for illegal alien amnesty while avoiding
the terms "illegal" and "amnesty."
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5. "The Race" gives mainstream cover to a
poisonous subset of ideological satellites, led by Movimiento Estudiantil
Chicano de Aztlan, or Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA). The late GOP
Rep. Charlie Norwood rightly characterized the organization as "a radical
racist group … one of the most anti-American groups in the country, which has
permeated U.S. campuses since the 1960s, and continues its push to carve a
racist nation out of the American West."
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4. "The Race" is currently leading a
smear campaign against staunch immigration enforcement leaders and has called
for TV and cable news networks to keep immigration enforcement proponents off
the airwaves -- in addition to pushing for Fairness Doctrine policies to shut
up their foes. The New York Times reported that current "Race"
president Janet Murguia believes "hate speech" should "not be
tolerated, even if such censorship were a violation of First Amendment
rights."
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3. "The Race" sponsors militant ethnic
nationalist charter schools subsidized by your public tax dollars (at least $8
million in federal education grants). The schools include Aztlan Academy in
Tucson, Ariz., the Mexicayotl Academy in Nogales, Ariz., Academia Cesar Chavez
Charter School in St. Paul, Minn., and La Academia Semillas del Pueblo in Los
Angeles, whose principal inveighed: "We don't want to drink from a White
water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of
collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain …
ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of
life will eventually lead to our own destruction."
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2. "The Race" has perfected the art of
the PC shakedown at taxpayer expense, pushing relentlessly to lower home loan
standards for Hispanic borrowers, reaping millions in federal "mortgage
counseling" grants, seeking special multimillion-dollar earmarks and
partnering with banks that do business with illegal aliens.
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1. "The Race" thrives on ethnic supremacy
-- and the elite sheeple's unwillingness to call it what it is. As historian
Victor Davis Hanson observes: "[The] organization's very nomenclature 'The
National Council of La Raza' is hate speech to the core. Despite all the
contortions of the group, Raza (as its Latin cognate suggests) reflects the
meaning of 'race' in Spanish, not 'the people'-- and that's precisely why we
don't hear of something like 'The National Council of the People,' which would
not confer the buzz notion of ethnic, racial and tribal chauvinism."
The fringe is the center. The center is the fringe. Viva La Raza?