Thread: Senate Expected to Vote on Stimulus Package Today!

Senate Expected to Vote on Stimulus Package Today!
Call Your Senators Now!

Today the Senate is expected to vote on the economic stimulus package (H.R.5140) and FAIR is asking all members, activists, and friends to take action immediately to preserve the language we fought for last week!

As we reported in our last alert, the House version of the economic stimulus package has loopholes that allow illegal aliens to receive tax rebates from the federal government. First, the House version allows resident aliens who file using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to receive a rebate. Because the IRS does not take immigration status into account when issuing ITINs or determining resident alien status, illegal aliens who file returns using ITINs will be able to receive refund checks from the IRS. In addition, the House economic stimulus package does not require the IRS to weed out false and fraudulent social security numbers in its system before issuing rebate checks.

Last week, the Senate Finance Committee drafted its own version of the economic stimulus bill and attempted to fix these loopholes by: (1) requiring taxpayers to have valid social security numbers in order to be eligible for rebates, and (2) barring taxpayers who file with ITINs from receiving rebate checks. According to Senate staffers, in order to determine whether a social security number is valid, the IRS will have to check the numbers against no-match information it already receives from the Social Security Administration to determine eligibility for the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Reliable sources have told FAIR that when the Senate takes up the bill, there may be an attempt to water down the Senate language by stripping the provision that bars the issuance of rebate checks to individuals who file with ITINs. This would be most likely if the Senate decides to vote on the House language without amending it to include the immigration-related changes made in the Senate Finance Committee.

Please call your Senators TODAY and insist that they keep their word! Tell them that no matter which stimulus package they adopt, Congress should prohibit the IRS from issuing rebate checks to illegal aliens. This means making individuals who file with ITINs ineligible for tax rebates.

Dustin Inman Society Alert
February 6, 2008

Senate Expected to Vote on Stimulus Package Today!
Call Your Senators Now!

The story so far HERE from Michelle Malkin

IF TAX REBATES GO TO ALIENS USING ITINs, WE WILL BE GIVING REBATES TO ILLEGALS...there is NO "BUT"

MAYBE WE CAN MAIL STIMULUS CHECKS TO MEXICO?

Today the Senate is expected to vote on the economic stimulus package (H.R.5140) and FAIR is asking all members, activists, and friends to take action immediately to preserve the language we fought for last week!

As we reported in our last alert, the House version of the economic stimulus package has loopholes that allow illegal aliens to receive tax rebates from the federal government. First, the House version allows resident aliens who file using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) to receive a rebate. Because the IRS does not take immigration status into account when issuing ITINs or determining resident alien status, illegal aliens who file returns using ITINs will be able to receive refund checks from the IRS. In addition, the House economic stimulus package does not require the IRS to weed out false and fraudulent social security numbers in its system before issuing rebate checks.

Last week, the Senate Finance Committee drafted its own version of the economic stimulus bill and attempted to fix these loopholes by: (1) requiring taxpayers to have valid social security numbers in order to be eligible for rebates, and (2) barring taxpayers who file with ITINs from receiving rebate checks. According to Senate staffers, in order to determine whether a social security number is valid, the IRS will have to check the numbers against no-match information it already receives from the Social Security Administration to determine eligibility for the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Reliable sources have told FAIR that when the Senate takes up the bill, there may be an attempt to water down the Senate language by stripping the provision that bars the issuance of rebate checks to individuals who file with ITINs. This would be most likely if the Senate decides to vote on the House language without amending it to include the immigration-related changes made in the Senate Finance Committee.

Please call your Senators TODAY and insist that they keep their word! Tell them that no matter which stimulus package they adopt, Congress should prohibit the IRS from issuing rebate checks to illegal aliens. This means making individuals who file with ITINs ineligible for tax rebates.

Sincerely,
D.A. King

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