Millions of Citizen Children Would be Harmed by Proposal Billed as Targeting Immigrant Tax Filers

Millions of Citizen Children Would be Harmed by Proposal Billed as Targeting Immigrant Tax Filers

Congressional Republicans have floated a proposal to strip the Child Tax Credit (CTC) from millions of children who are U.S. citizens and legal residents in situations where their parents do not have Social Security numbers (SSNs). In a joint study from the Center on Migration Studies, the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, Boston University Institute for Equity in Child Opportunity & Healthy Development, and ITEP, we fo…