Presidenton page 2 "or any other tax credit otherwise allowable under the Tax Code." What could that be? The child tax credit. This amendment also prohibits immigrant workers from receiving the child tax credit. The Tax Code permits families to take a $1.000 tax credit for each minor child. This is one of the most important provisions in the entire Internal Revenue Code for working families. It recognizes how expensive it is to raise children today. and it reduces a familys tax liability by $1.000 for each child. It allows these families to pay less income tax so that the money can be used to help them meet the childs basic needs. But the Ensign amendment says to immigrant families struggling on meager wages. trying to provide a better life for their children: You cant use the child tax credit to reduce your tax liability. even though every other family can. It does not matter that in many cases your children were born in the United States and are American citizens. Your children still cannot receive the benefit of the child tax credit because you were an undocumented worker. As a result. an immigrant family with two youth children. maybe American citizens. will have to pay $2.000 more in taxes each year than any other family in America who has the same income. same number of dependent children. That is an incredibly harsh penalty to impose on these families. The Ensign amendment would impose a special punitive Tax Code on immigrants who were once undocumented. making them pay higher taxes than anyone else with comparable incomes. denying them the basic right to a refund of their own money when the employer withholds more than they owe. I urge my colleagues to look closely at this unjust amendment and reject it. I reserve the remainder of my time.
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