The Daily Pennsylvanian:
media mentionIn 2009, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation cancelled a number of drivers’ licenses across the state to comply with a 2002 law change. Their justification was that the licenses were flagged in their databases as possibly fraudulent.
For many of these licenses, the reason they appeared fraudulent was that they had been issued to people using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number and not a Social Security Number. The IRS issues an ITIN to people who file taxes and can’t obtain a SSN, the majority of whom are undocumented.
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There are also the cold, hard numbers proving time and again that undocumented immigrants pay taxes. According to the non-partisan research group Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, quoted in a 2013 Huffington Post article, every year undocumented immigrants contribute $10.6 billion in state and local taxes alone, through sales, excise, property and income taxes.