Denver Post: GOP looks to end child tax credits to illegal immigrants
Republicans are looking to deny child tax credits to illegal immigrants — refund checks averaging $1,800 a family. The effort has roused anger among Latinos and some Democratic lawmakers.
The plan would require people who claim the credit to have Social Security numbers to prove they're legal workers. It's being offered as a way to help fund extending the Social Security tax cut for most wage-earners. It would trim spending by about $10 billion over a decade.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said the proposal unfairly goes after the children of poor Latino workers. Such kids often were born in this country and are citizens, even if the parents aren't.
Leticia Miranda, senior policy adviser of the National Council of La Raza, said: "People who are making close to the minimum wage and are raising children in this country — and we're asking them to pay for the payroll tax cut? ... It's outrageous, and it's crazy.
http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_19924403
Not surprisingly that the GOP would try to fund the payroll tax cut by going after low-income workers rather than accepting higher taxes on "legal" high-wage workers. They are "smart" in that by going after these particular low-income workers (who are a "them" not an "us"
they have a better chance of protecting their rich backers. (Sometime "divide-and-conquer" works.) And it fits in nicely with Mitt's "self-deportation" policy of "make them miserable enough and they will leave".
