What I want to know is, do their kids have to be living in the US, whether the parent is illegal or resident alien for them to claim exemptions or whatever?
I mean for example, if they are living in Mexico can they claim them if they say they support them?
And alot of these people really do have big families. They guy I work with has 7 kids back in Mexico, although the oldest are teenagers so who knows if they are here or there.
"What I want to know is, do their kids have to be living in the US, whether the parent is illegal or resident alien for them to claim exemptions or whatever?"
No, in fact they don't even have to exist. A friend of mine who used to work at a meat processing plant said the illegals there used to routinely claim 9 dependents.
But regardless, Hegel-Martinez allows the kids of amnestied illegals to immediately come over to the US for an education at taxpayer expense.