We hope this email finds you well! Please see below links to 8 videos in refugee and immigrant languages about Visiting the Dentist and more!
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Visiting the Dentist: These videos explain what to expect when visiting the dentist. As well as procedures that are done for patients during dental appointments, such as fillings, crowns, root canals, and more.
Catholic Charities-Milwaukee is working in partnership with Milwaukee Public Schools to build a resource library of newcomer parent videos to support refugee and immigrant communities as they navigate complex systems and life in the US. Thanks to the generous support of the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters Fund.
Please let us know if you have any questions, feedback, or suggestions for future videos based on community goals and needs you notice. Thank you for all that you do!
President Biden’s latest immigration policy announced on June 18th and scheduled to become effective on August 19th. This policy authorizes the naturalization of spouses & children of American citizens who are; undocumented, have lived in the U.S. for 10 years or longer and are married to an American Citizens prior to June 17, 2024, to become citizens of the United States without leaving the Country.
Informational session(s) covering key aspects of the policy, the application process, its impact on families, & providing question and answers periods from USCIS experts will be held. Intended for both Applicants and Providers.
· DATE & TIME: TBD – Final specifications and application procedures are still forthcoming.
· Location:TBD – Zoom and in Person
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Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Most of that amount, $59.4 billion, was paid to the federal government while the remaining $37.3 billion was paid to state and local governments.
Undocumented immigrants paid federal, state, and local taxes of $8,889 per person in 2022. In other words, for every 1 million undocumented immigrants who reside in the country, public services receive $8.9 billion in additional tax revenue.
More than a third of the tax dollars paid by undocumented immigrants go toward payroll taxes dedicated to funding programs that these workers are barred from accessing. Undocumented immigrants paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022.
At the state and local levels, slightly less than half (46 percent, or $15.1 billion) of the tax payments made by undocumented immigrants are through sales and excise taxes levied on their purchases. Most other payments are made through property taxes, such as those levied on homeowners and renters (31 percent, or $10.4 billion), or through personal and business income taxes (21 percent, or $7.0 billion).
Six states raised more than $1 billion each in tax revenue from undocumented immigrants living within their borders. Those states are California ($8.5 billion), Texas ($4.9 billion), New York ($3.1 billion), Florida ($1.8 billion), Illinois ($1.5 billion), and New Jersey ($1.3 billion).
In a large majority of states (40), undocumented immigrants pay higher state and local tax rates than the top 1 percent of households living within their borders.
Income tax payments by undocumented immigrants are affected by laws that require them to pay more than otherwise similarly situated U.S. citizens. Undocumented immigrants are often barred from receiving meaningful tax credits and sometimes do not claim refunds they are owed due to lack of awareness, concern about their immigration status, or insufficient access to tax preparation assistance.
Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both because their wages would rise and because their rates of tax compliance would increase. Under a scenario where work authorization is provided to all current undocumented immigrants, their tax contributions would rise by $40.2 billion per year to $136.9 billion. Most of the new revenue raised in this scenario ($33.1 billion) would flow to the federal government while the remainder ($7.1 billion) would flow to states and localities.
Introduction
Immigration has always been an important part of the story of the United States. Today is certainly no exception.
Debates over immigration policy raise a huge array of issues that are fundamental to life in the U.S. To shed light on just one of those issues, this study undertakes the most thorough examination to date of the federal, state, and local tax payments made by undocumented immigrants.
To accomplish this, the study combines well-established techniques for estimating the size and tax-relevant characteristics of the undocumented population with the trove of data underlying ITEP’s comprehensive studies of U.S. tax incidence.[1] In doing so, it arrives at nationwide estimates of the overall tax contributions of the estimated 10.9 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. as of 2022, as well as state-by-state estimates for those immigrants’ payments of state and local taxes.[2] The report also forecasts the growth in tax contributions that would occur under a scenario in which these taxpayers were granted work authorization.
A Washington Post analysis of more than 4.1 million U.S. from the past decade reveals a population that was once overwhelmingly Mexican and Central American but has in recent years spanned the globe.
Far fewer migrants have gotten into the country than have been apprehended at the border, the data shows. And those who cleared that first hurdle — and are still facing possible deportation in the courts — have fanned out into every U.S. state.
