Oppo­si­tion wide­spread to giv­ing ille­gal immi­grants a child tax cred­it

In the lat­est sign of anger over Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s open bor­ders agen­da that has wel­comed a record num­ber of ille­gal immi­grants, the pub­lic is turn­ing against grant­i­ng child tax cred­its to those who crossed the bor­der ille­gal­ly.
And not only do a major­i­ty of like­ly vot­ers oppose grant­i­ng a $1,800 tax cred­it to ille­gal immi­grants even if they pay no tax­es, but they don’t favor the pay­off even if the child is a legal U.S. cit­i­zen.
The results of the sur­vey pro­vid­ed to Secrets from the Cen­ter for Excel­lence in Polling demon­strate the con­cerns peo­ple have over the Trump-era cred­it await­ing a Sen­ate vote and GOP con­cerns it includes a loop­hole to push mon­ey to ille­gal immi­grant par­ents.
While giv­ing a child tax cred­it to ille­gal immi­grant par­ents might not have been con­tro­ver­sial in the past, the surge in oppo­si­tion to unlaw­ful bor­der cross­ings due to Biden’s wide-open door has turned the coun­try against it and …