Millions of taxpaying immigrants
won’t get stimulus checks
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: konocti95,
4/12/2020 4:10:38 PM
The $2.2 trillion package that Congress approved to offer financial help during the coronavirus pandemic has one major exclusion: millions of immigrants who do not have legal status in the U.S. but work here and pay taxes.
That includes Carmen Contreras Lopez, a 48-year-old housekeeper who, though she earns low wages, files a tax return each year. Since the virus took hold, she has lost most of her clients and is getting by with help from her oldest son. But she won’t see a penny of the money promised to most Americans in response to the pandemic.
“It’s hard because to the government, we don’t exist,” said Contreras
Reply 1 - Posted by:
aasilver 4/12/2020 4:17:10 PM (No. 377456)
Millions of taxpaying ILLEGAL immigrants won’t get stimulus checks. There I corrected it.
This should be the headline. They don't pay taxes. An illelal does not have a legitimate SSN and cannot pay Federal Income taxes.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
aasilver 4/12/2020 4:18:10 PM (No. 377458)
sorry for the spelling mistakes in #1.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 4/12/2020 4:23:22 PM (No. 377460)
This money is coming our of future revenues. It's possible they will not be here to repay it. But if they go home and try entering through our many LEGAL channels, I'm pretty sure we will be hiring in the near future.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 4/12/2020 4:23:46 PM (No. 377461)
The key point is that they came here ILLEGALLY, instead of going through the lawful immigration process. Legal immigrants file for citizenship and all the benefits bestowed by same. They are criminals, no matter the humanitarian issue. People cannot just sneak into another Nation and then expect to receive the benefits that Nation offers.
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How horrible!
They should leave the country in protest to this mistreatment!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
John Gee 4/12/2020 4:29:28 PM (No. 377464)
How does this illegal alien file for taxes and not get deported?
And how does she actually pay anything, since she makes so little?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 4/12/2020 4:30:17 PM (No. 377465)
Actually, the government is sending the money to the LEGAL holder of the SS # she is using to file her taxes. If she was legal and held a legitimate Social Security number, she would be getting a check.
Sorry. You lose!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
rochow 4/12/2020 4:32:59 PM (No. 377467)
When you arrive in the US legally you are given a SS number. Illegals do not have a SS number, they send most of their earnings back to wherever they came from. Every time I read this nonsense I explode. Some get themselves a 'legal' SS number but it belongs/ed to someone else. They use it when they want to get into a company....since a workplace withholds certain taxes I have no idea where they would be sending the tax money. I assume they know it's an illegal number and the work place keeps the so called tax money for themselves.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TennDon 4/12/2020 4:35:01 PM (No. 377469)
Well now! Maybe they should go back home so they’re no longer criminals.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Norgay 4/12/2020 4:35:28 PM (No. 377470)
Why should she be subsidized by the government so that her employer can pay a cheaper wage? That’s what we are talking about. Her employer is taking advantage her lack of status so they can pay a lower wage than what a citizen would be able to charge. And if they Know she is an illegal, why isn’t her employer being charged for hiring her?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
winmag 4/12/2020 4:37:30 PM (No. 377472)
They come hear, spit on our laws, vote for democrats who give them billions in welfare, and then expect to have legal citizens pay them some more. Go back to MEHICO!!!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Namma 4/12/2020 4:44:58 PM (No. 377478)
The illegals should go march on Washington. tomorrow
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/12/2020 4:54:11 PM (No. 377484)
Gee, that's too bad. Maybe next time you enter a country, you will do it LEGALLY.
20 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Phantomll 4/12/2020 4:56:42 PM (No. 377486)
Cry me a river!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/12/2020 4:59:45 PM (No. 377491)
FTA: " ... millions of immigrants who do not have legal status ..."
Oh - - do you mean CRIMINALS?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/12/2020 5:06:24 PM (No. 377496)
Go on back to SanGuateMexico and see how much they're coughing up. I hear China where this whole thing blew in from is particularly generous.
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I guess we can chalk this up as being "anecdotal" and move on.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
SALady 4/12/2020 5:14:26 PM (No. 377503)
If I were an illegal alien, and this happened to me, I would show them and just go back to my home country!!!!
Yeah, that will show them!!!
If any illegal aliens decide this is good advice and want a ride to the bus station or airport, my husband has the car gassed up and is ready to get out of the house for a little while!!!!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/12/2020 5:25:55 PM (No. 377510)
Unless the word Illegal (with a capital I) is put in front of immigrants, the headline is a fraud of the first order!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chase9365 4/12/2020 5:29:50 PM (No. 377513)
That's a LEGAL immigrant perk.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/12/2020 5:33:37 PM (No. 377514)
You exist in your home country. Go back there, invader.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Sardonic 4/12/2020 5:37:29 PM (No. 377517)
Illegal aliens are not legal immigrants. No matter how many times you want to repeat that lie
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
gramma b 4/12/2020 5:41:35 PM (No. 377520)
Just because they file tax returns doesn't mean that they pay anything. If they are low income and get earned income credit, they get free money instead of paying taxes. The woman who is the subject of the opening sob story has four grown anchor babies who can help her.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/12/2020 5:42:41 PM (No. 377522)
They get a special tax ID number and file returns to prove how long they've been in the country, preparing for the next amnesty. Most get refunds or pay a piddling amount. The WSJ had an article about illegals and tax returns a few years back. The best they could come up with was one illegal who'd paid around $400 in taxes. Most got refunds.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Kate318 4/12/2020 5:43:29 PM (No. 377523)
Which taxes would that be that these “immigrants” pay? Sales tax? Entertainment tax? Toll roads? Give me a break. Do you think we are that stupid?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 4/12/2020 5:48:52 PM (No. 377527)
This is the Associated Press. They have gone far-left and TDS. Every one of their "news" articles is so slanted that they look like satire from the Babylon Bee. Our little local daily is normally fair and is an asset to our city for local news but they use AP which is now so biased they make me gag. I have written and complained but they are barely hanging on and I guess they need AP for financial reasons.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/12/2020 5:52:31 PM (No. 377530)
The path to citizenship is I-5 through San Ysidro.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/12/2020 6:00:15 PM (No. 377532)
What #1 said.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
msjena 4/12/2020 6:10:43 PM (No. 377537)
How does someone pay taxes without a social security number? And the truth is, most illegal workers like this woman get paid in cash and don’t pay taxes.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Laotzu 4/12/2020 6:10:54 PM (No. 377539)
Good. Now, can we please make anyone in jail doesn't get it. They still get free room and board and have no adverse impact because of the virus.
You think maybe that's why the Dems wanted them all released?????
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Jebediah 4/12/2020 6:24:02 PM (No. 377546)
Hate to sound hard hearted, but that is called ILLEGAL. Plenty of us don't qualify for the checks, though the $ does come from our taxes. (Plus, any number of illegals have false social security numbers.) I see reply #1, which I just read, feels the same way.............
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So is not having "legal status" the result of a paperwork error on their immigration forms, or perhaps just a slow working bureaucracy holding up their green card . . . . or is it a result of their having intentionally entered this country ILLEGALLY, that is, contrary to our laws? Burglars lack "legal status" to be inside their victims' homes, too, and there's no mystery why. And does the AP believe that if an illegal alien enters the US and buys a 6 pack of beer at a local 7-11, and pays sales tax on said beer, he or she somehow should become entitled to the rights of a citizen or foreign nation who does have "legal status"?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 4/12/2020 6:28:46 PM (No. 377550)
Cry me a Rio Grande.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Scribelus 4/12/2020 6:36:31 PM (No. 377553)
Return to the country from which you invaded. Pay taxes there. Wait for the refund.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/12/2020 6:46:11 PM (No. 377557)
Whoa! How are they paying taxes without a Social Security card? Makes no sense to me. We once had a fulltime live-in housekeeper, whom we sponsored for a green card. We operated as any legitimate employer would, paying the employer part of her SS. I helped her file her tax return every year.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
kono 4/12/2020 6:46:31 PM (No. 377558)
AP went far to the Left long before Trump Derangement Syndrome became an identified media affliction. They dropped the distinction between legal and illegal immigration even before the Magic Negro became occupant at the White House...
The anecdotes given in these articles mix stories about illegal immigrants with stories about legal ones without distinguishing them, and unless one is reading with an eye for that, it's easy to get the impression that legal immigrants are being shafted.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/12/2020 6:54:36 PM (No. 377563)
"But she won’t see a penny of the money promised to most Americans in response to the pandemic."
She won't see a penny, nor should she. She shouldn't get a penny, and there are lots of Americans who shouldn't see a penny because they don't pay the main tax either. However, we're taxed to death, so everybody pays all the time. Even when they pay with other people's money.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Folsomguy 4/12/2020 6:55:07 PM (No. 377565)
I have a few questions. How do you pay taxes without a SS number? How do you get a SS number if your not a legal citizen? How do ILLEGALS pay taxes without cheating somewhere and somehow?
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
red1066 4/12/2020 6:58:53 PM (No. 377569)
Look at it as a payback for all the money they used to illegally enter the country.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
DVC 4/12/2020 6:59:36 PM (No. 377572)
Illegal aliens....NOT immigrants.
They should get a free trip to their own countries.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/12/2020 7:11:43 PM (No. 377585)
They;ll just have to keep on stealing, I guess.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
judy 4/12/2020 7:14:42 PM (No. 377588)
AP ...pay them out of your Big $$$ fake salaries!!
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
ronniethek 4/12/2020 7:26:33 PM (No. 377597)
Which part of ILLEGAL does the AP not get?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
cor-vet 4/12/2020 7:45:34 PM (No. 377618)
I don't think anyone who games the system, and receives that 13th welfare check, laughingly known as earned income credit, should get a stimulus check.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Miceal 4/12/2020 8:01:51 PM (No. 377629)
That's Millions of ILLEGAL ALIENS...there, fixed it mo' better...
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
Pegmo 4/12/2020 8:01:58 PM (No. 377630)
Oh well. Actions have consequences.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
watashiyo 4/12/2020 9:23:32 PM (No. 377672)
Illegal Aliens working here is blatantly WRONG and so is our system running the government. This is especially true with the IRS, the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service), and the Social Security System. They're all corrupt and dysfunctional big time. Should dissolve those departments and start with a clean slate.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Omen55 4/12/2020 11:32:09 PM (No. 377721)
If this is suppose to make US feel bad you have failed!
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
judy 4/12/2020 11:38:09 PM (No. 377724)
Tell them they should have came in the front door instead of coming in the back Door Illegally!
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/13/2020 12:15:33 AM (No. 377728)
The people excluded from obtaining government money are not legal immigrants, they are illegal aliens who have no legal right to be in the USA, along with the fact that their employers are in violation of the law for hiring them.
The only reason that illegal aliens go to the trouble of filing income tax returns is to obtain tax refunds and credits, as most illegal aliens claim enough dependents even if the dependents are not in the USA, or are nonexistent dependents, so when they get to the bottom line that they have no tax liability and any previously withheld taxes are refunded to them.
Up to now the DC UniParty has allowed illegal aliens to get away with that. If the US Government starts handing out thousands of dollars in corona virus impact money to illegal aliens they will simply be encouraging fraud and more mass uncontrolled illegal immigration. Those illegal aliens instead should pack up and return to their home countries.
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"She won't see a penny of the money promised to most Americans" Well, sista, you are not an American. There lies the problem.
Frankly, I don't want to hear it. I see them every day with a boatload of WIC and EBT cards. She doesn't say if she has anchor babies or if she collects food stamps. I have a relative that is almost nonfunctional, spouse died suddenly, can't get help, food assistance cut off, gets nothing and probably won't get $1200. Don't expect me to care.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
4Justice 4/13/2020 1:21:43 AM (No. 377745)
Millions??? The number seems way overinflated. How are they paying taxes if they are here ILLEGALLY?? Whose Social Security numbers are they using? How come they haven't been deported than? They are lucky to be here. Why should we give them anything? No, no, NO and HECK NO!
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
Readaholic 4/13/2020 2:03:14 AM (No. 377758)
More winning.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
SALady 4/13/2020 2:28:59 AM (No. 377764)
There is no such thing as an "illegal immigrant".
You can be an immigrant, who is a foreigner who is in this country legally.
Or you can be an illegal alien, who is in this country illegally. And that is exactly who this article is talking about!!!
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
Trigger2 4/13/2020 2:29:21 AM (No. 377765)
ILLEGALS won't get a check...aw, cry me a river.
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
SALady 5/22/2020 6:28:18 PM (No. 419122)
Just using a very old post to test formatting. Please delete if not allowed. Thanks.
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
NYbob 5/22/2020 6:58:43 PM (No. 419153)
The AP and vast parts of the media should have been prosecuted for a RICO crime of supporting the destruction of the USA. Absolute traitors marching to the orders of people like soros and whatever puppet master is the face of the DNC. This is outright sedition using the public media to spread blatant lies from calling illegal invaders 'immigrants' which they are most certainly NOT, to purposely misquoting any Republican. AP and the media have destroyed senators, judges and in the long run, entire administrations.
A foreign enemy could not do as much damage to this country as the AP and their ilk have done in the last 100 years. Freedom of the press is not a license to lie. The only way this will end is with a catastrophe that rolls over the mewing cowards of the 'loyal opposition' who have done nothing about this cancer. Until every reporter, editor and owner of a media outlet understands they will pay a very heavy price for deception and lies, this will continue to shape the brains of the feeble minded and lazy. Look at history to see how the guilty finally get educated.
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