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american-
taxpayers

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., sparked online controversy Wednesday
after she
attempted to reframe reporting on her desire to direct
coronavirus aid to
illegal immigrants.

"There, fixed it for you," Omar tweeted alongside an image of a
New York
Post headline that read: "'Squad' members want to make illegal
immigrants
eligible for coronavirus aid." The Minnesota congresswoman
crossed out the
phrase "illegal immigrants" and replaced it with "American
taxpayers."


Ilhan Omar
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@IlhanMN
There, fixed it for you

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Omar's tweet touched a nerve, as both sides of the immigration
debate have
disagreed over whether illegal immigrants are unfairly reaping
the
benefits of public services.

AOC BLASTS CORONAVIRUS STIMULUS, BLAMES GOP FOR NOT GRANTING
CHECKS TO ALL
IMMIGRANTS

Some on Twitter pushed back with headline revisions of their own,
including one that simply said "aliens."


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There, fixed it for you

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Joey Saladino
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@JoeySalads
There, Fixed it for you

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Mark Dice
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@MarkDice
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Nope. I fixed it.

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Jen
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No, the first one was correct.

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Brandon McNellis
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An illegal immigrant is not an American.

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ILHAN OMAR SUGGESTS IT'S 'UN-AMERICAN' FOR ICE TO DETAIN ILLEGAL
IMMIGRANTS

"An illegal immigrant is not an American," one user wrote. Omar,
who has
called for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE), has
a history of making controversial comments about the issue. For
example,
she suggested last June that it was "un-American to criminalize
immigrants
wanting to come to this country for a better life."

On Tuesday, the congresswoman released a statement in which she
argued
that Congress' coronavirus relief package excluded so-called
"mixed-
status" families, which include people who are noncitizens.

“It is absurd and cruel that a taxpaying, mixed status [sic]
couple or
family could be excluded from this relief,” Omar said.

“Over 140,000 Minnesotans live in mixed status [sic] families of
some
form. As currently written, many Minnesotans who are in this
country
legally or part of a mixed status [sic] family will not receive
any
stimulus money, even if one of them has a social security [sic]
number but
the other does not.”

UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS PAY $11.6 BILLION PER YEAR IN STATE
TAXES, REPORT
SAYS

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., previously accused
Republicans of
ensuring coronavirus aid money only went to Americans who have
Social
Security numbers.

"To clarify, $1200 checks are ONLY going to some w/social sec
numbers, NOT
immigrants w/ tax IDs (ITINs)," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "Thanks
to GOP,
these checks will be cut off the backs of *taxpaying
immigrants,* who get
nothing. Many are essential workers who pay more taxes than
Amazon. Wall
St gets $4T[.]"

An Individual Tax Identification Number (ITINs) is, as the IRS
describes,
"a tax processing number only available for certain nonresident
and
resident aliens, their spouses, and dependents who cannot get a
Social
Security Number." This includes illegal immigrants.

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A conservative group's study in 2017 found illegal immigrants
are a net
consumer of taxpayer benefits worth more than $100 billion a
year, not
including the cost of enforcing the border. While federal
benefits are
supposed to be off limits, in practice many are not. More than
25,000
undocumented workers receive subsidized housing, according to
the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development. Children receive
free
education and most qualify for English lessons and free school
breakfast
and lunch.

Another report from 2016 said that undocumented immigrants paid
$11.6
billion per year in state taxes.

Fox News' William La Jeunesse and Ronn Blitzer contributed to
this report.

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