Illegal immigrants getting stimulus checks?

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times - Monday, March 22, 2021

Will illegal immigrants receive stimulus checks? Some are convinced that this is the case, based on statistical evidence.

According to the Center for Immigration Studies, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, “many illegal immigrants” will be receiving the checks, which will ultimately add up an estimated to be $4.4 billion, as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.

Here’s their reasoning:

“During the debate over the coronavirus relief bill Senator Dick Durbin, Illinois Democrat, stated that ‘Undocumented immigrants do not have Social Security numbers, and they do not qualify for stimulus relief checks.’ This is incorrect,” stated the analysis, which was released Monday.

“We estimate that there are 2.65 million illegal immigrants who have Social Security numbers that allow them to receive stimulus checks. We estimate that 2.1 million of these individuals have incomes low enough to qualify for checks, and they have 1.1 million U.S.-born dependent children.

As a result, illegal immigrants could receive an estimated $4.38 billion in cash payments from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021,” the analysis said.

“There is simply no question that millions of illegal immigrants will receive billions of dollars in coronavirus relief checks. This highlights an even more disturbing fact — illegal immigrants are being issued Social Security numbers in large numbers. This is a clear indication that America is simply not serious about enforcing its immigration laws,” said research director Steven A. Camarota, who also authored the analysis.

Those undocumented visitors who have been given work authorizations and valid Social Security numbers, the analysis said, include asylum applicants, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients (“Dreamers”), those granted Temporary Protected Status and those using “stolen identities.”

The nation is only just now getting a limited look at conditions on the southern U.S. border as migrants rush to cross the border under the media-shy Biden administration’s relaxed new immigration. Newly released images of children crowded into cramped corners have begun to surface.

One news organization takes such limited access very seriously.

“There’s only one thing not open on the southern border: media access to the operations of Customs and Border Protection. In a totalitarian effort at hiding the truth, the Biden administration has blocked the press,” says The New York Post in an editorial.

The news organization cited veteran photojournalist John Moore in particular.

He publicly requested that U.S. Customs and Border Protection “stop blocking media access to their border operations,” according to The Post.
“I have photographed CBP under Bush, Obama and Trump but now — zero access is granted to media,” Mr. Moore said.

“That’s right: He had to cross the border himself to shoot unrestricted. There’s more press freedom in Mexico than in the United States,” The Post editorial noted.

“Because most migrants are crossing on federal land, the feds have the power to keep the press away, but Moore says there’s ‘no precedent’ for them doing so on this scale. It can only be because Biden wants to hide the extent of his complete failure at the border — and just how many people are being waved in.”

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