By Samuel Kimzey | The Federalist
We are witnessing a well-coordinated, multi-pronged strategy targeting the incentives that draw illegal aliens to the United States.
Last week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced new regulations to clarify existing federal law and prevent illegal aliens from collecting government benefits. Bessent wrote on X: “Under @POTUS, the days of illegal aliens collecting taxpayer-funded benefits are over. The federal law is clear, and @USTreasury is enforcing it. American taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill for benefits going to those who are barred by law from receiving them. These proposed regulations end the abuse, protect the integrity of the tax system, and put Americans first.”
These new policies are crucial to the Trump administration plan to reclaim our nation from the massive inflow of illegal aliens under Joe Biden.
Specifically, the newly proposed regulations from the Trump administration aim to clarify enforcement of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). That 1996 statute signed into law by President Bill Clinton established that only U.S. citizens and qualified legal aliens are eligible to receive federal public benefits.
The new regulations clarify that four kinds of tax refunds are indeed “federal public benefits,” which means illegal aliens are ineligible to receive them. The credits are: the adoption tax credit, the child tax credit, the American opportunity tax credit, and the earned income tax credit. All of these can be claimed by individual American citizens or qualified legal, taxpaying aliens, but the Treasury Department and IRS aim to block illegal aliens from receiving these tax refunds.
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