90 Miles From Tyranny

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

About 6.1 Million Illegals Filed Taxes in US – Many Didn't Pay, Received Refund

In the last presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Clinton said that “half of all” illegal immigrants in the U.S. “actually pay federal income tax.” PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning fact check organization, investigated Clinton’s claim and reported: “While there is no official figure, experts estimate that about half of all undocumented workers pay federal income taxes, if not more.”

In reality, the polar opposite is true. Federal government data shows that while roughly half of illegal immigrants file federal tax returns, the vast majority of them don’t pay any federal income taxes. Instead, they use these returns to claim refundable tax credits, which are a form of cash welfare. In other words, illegal immigrants mainly use the federal income tax code to collect money from U.S. citizens.

Reliable Data on Illegal Immigrants Is Scarce

Federal law generally prohibits illegal immigrants from earning income in the U.S., but many of them do so by working for cash and by fraudulently using Social Security numbers. A 2013 report by the Social Security Administration notes that illegal immigrants get Social Security numbers by using ...

Trump to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorist Group

This is, indeed, wonderful news. These terror-tied groups have been operating unchecked under the Obama administration — worse still, he partnered with many of them.

Muslim Brotherhood groups like CAIR, Muslim Student Association, Islamic Society of North America are terror-tied groups that must be prosecuted under the full extent of the law.

Under Obama, the Department of Justice is engaged in collusion with the country’s most dangerous and subversive jihadist groups. And this is not just Department of Justice (DoJ) policy. It’s the policy of the Obama administration.

For years my readers and I wanted to know why there were no indictments and prosecutions of the Muslim Brotherhood co-conspirators (CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MAS) named in the largest terror funding trial in US history (here, for example). Obama and Holder have scuttled them, much the same way as they dropped the voter intimidation charges against the Black Panthers...

Billionaire oligarch George Soros may have pissed away millions of dollars on the now defeated Clinton restoration but he isn’t about to stop writing checks. With his organized racist mobs currently taking to the streets to spread anarchy in opposition of President-elect Donald Trump, the blood-sucking Hungarian ghoul has convened a secret session with infuriated Democrats who are looking for payback against the legitimately elected president.

According to Politico “Soros bands with donors to resist Trump, ‘take back power'”:

George Soros and other rich liberals who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to elect Hillary Clinton are gathering in Washington for a three-day, closed door meeting to retool the big-money left to fight back against Donald Trump.
The conference, which kicked off Sunday night at Washington’s pricey Mandarin Oriental hotel, is sponsored by the influential Democracy Alliance donor club, and will include appearances by leaders of most leading unions and liberal groups, as well as darlings of the left such as House Democratic leader...

President-elect Donald Trump gave laid-off IT workers something his rival, Hillary Clinton, did not during the campaign: Attention and a promise to reform the H-1B visa program.

The IT workers that Trump wanted to appeal to don't work for startups, Google, Facebook or Microsoft. They run IT systems at insurance firms, banks, utilities and retailers. They live in Rust Belt cities and in New York City, but are too spread out for pollsters to measure.

Trump recognized that IT workers are aggrieved and so did Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who worked with the president-elect on this issue. Sessions, after being appointed in early 2015 as the chairman of the Senate immigration subcommittee, set out to become "the voice of the American IT workers who are being replaced with guest workers."

Sessions emerged as one of the visa program's harshest critics. He is now set to play a major role in a Trump administration.

Trump has appointed Sessions' chief counsel, Danielle Cutrona, to head his immigration policy transition team. Sessions is reportedly being considered to head the Department of Homeland Security (which oversees the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service), Department of Justice (which can investigate discrimination complaints), or the Department of Defense.

"Trump was the only candidate to invite me to share my horrific Disney story at his rallies, and Jeff Sessions was the only senator to invite me to testify at a Senate hearing," said Leo Perrero, a former IT worker at Disney who trained a visa-holding replacement. Disney laid off somewhere between 200 and 300 IT workers after hiring H-1B using contractors.

With Republicans in control of the Congress as well, Perrero said, "I am very optimistic that action will finally be taken."

After Southern California Edison (SCE) replaced a major part of its IT staff last year, Sessions took to the Senate floor and...