Economics Article Q4W4

Why undocumented immigrants pay taxes

Every tax season year, undocumented immigrants file their taxes with the federal government, getting away with it easily. Out of the nearly 11.1 million undocumented immigrants estimated to be living in the U.S., Pew Reasearch projected that there were about 8 million in the workforce in 2014. Nearly half, or 3.4 million, of those workers paid Social Security taxes, according to 2014 estimates from the Social Security administration. And while the agency doesn't have a figure for how much this group paid in taxes that year, it said that unauthorized immigrant workers and their employers contributed $13 billion in payroll taxes in 2010, its most current estimate.A policy attorney at the Immigration Resource Center, Jose Salgado, said that that millions of undocumented immigrants file their taxes because immigrants are trying to abide by the law and are fulfilling their civic and financial responsibilities. I honestly think that undocumented immigrants that have payed their taxes every year, but have been deported should get all their tax money back.