Among the dozens of new benefit programs in President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” reconciliation spending plan is a new Child Tax Credit (CTC) that would send more than $25 billion to legal and illegal immigrants with children born in the United States, according to an analysis made public on Oct. 5.
“The stalled budget reconciliation bill replaces the Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC), which paid cash to low-income workers with children, with a program that is part of the enhanced Child Tax Credit (CTC),” according to Steven Camarota, director of research for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), in the analysis.
