Nationwide, undocumented immigrants pay about $11.7 billion a year in state and local income, sales and property taxes, including about $1.5 billion in Texas, according to the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. And more than 4 million people who do not have Social Security numbers – most of them undocumented immigrants – file federal tax returns using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers issued by the Internal Revenue Service. Read more
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