“It’s pretty hypocritical,” said Adrian Escarate, the former tennis pro and current communications manager who is a DACA recipient and has been paying taxes since 2013. “Especially when you see the billions of dollars in taxes paid by immigrants.”ADADUndocumented immigrants paid more than $11 billion in taxes in 2017, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. That same year, Trump paid just $750, according to the New York Times story. “All my undocumented colleagues who worked for Trump paid taxes and social security and got no benefits,” Diaz wrote in a tweet. And Grayson’s $72 in taxes were more than Trump paid that year, Ballantine said, which was zero.

Source: Washington Post September 28, 2020 22:17 UTC