by Susan Dunlap, NM Political Report
Aug. 8, 2024
A nonprofit group released data showing how much taxes migrants pay in the U.S. as rhetoric on immigration grows more prominent just months from election day.
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policies is a nonprofit, nonpartisan tax policy organization. The Institute’s report, Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants, shows that in 2022, those who work without documentation paid $96.7 billion in federal, state and local taxes.
Jacob Vigil, deputy policy director for New Mexico Voices for Children, told NM Political Report that migrant workers not only pay taxes but are left out of most government benefits due to a rhetoric built on exclusion and “real misunderstandings immigrants make to the public sector and public finances.”
“Plus, the economic impact of their presence in the workforce,” he said.
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