A group of Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers introduced legislation that would impose a tax on illegal immigrants’ foreign remittances and send the money to the state’s property tax and rent relief fund, Fox News informed.
Doug Mastriano, a state senator from Gettysburg and a candidate for governor in 2022, introduced the bill as an amendment to the Money Transmission Business Licensing Law of 1965. As of Friday afternoon, he was joined by at least three more senators.
On Friday, Mastriano told Fox News that the anticipated loss of Title 42 safeguards, which permitted the US to repatriate illegal immigrants to Mexico due to COVID-19 concerns, will certainly result in another migrant influx.
According to the lawmaker the international cash remittances, according to the politician, take funds out of the state’s economy and as a result foreign countries benefit instead.
According to numbers quoted in a statement by state lawmakers, the Property Tax & Rent Rebate Program, which was created by the state legislature in 1971, has supplied $6.8 billion in public funding since that time.
State Sen. Mario Scavello, R-Mount Pocono, later joined Mastriano in sponsoring the bill. Scavello recently crafted a plan to move illegal immigrants brought into Pennsylvania on Biden administration-sanctioned “ghost flights” to Delaware, the president’s home state.
Scavello stated that if the relocations are good enough for the state of Pennsylvania than Delaware is also a good place after officials in his state openly questioned the frequent late-night arrivals.
At the time, the office of the Democratic Governor Tom Wolf told Fox News that such aircraft into the Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, airport were passing through on their way to sponsors and guardians in other cities.
Mastriano and Scavello have also condemned Pennsylvania’s high property taxes, with Scavello claiming that some migrants are placing an additional strain on the state’s public education system.
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