The IRS and ICE are working on a deal for access to addresses of illegal immigrants in the country in order to find and deport them.
Here’s the news via the Washington Post:
The Internal Revenue Service is nearing an agreement to allow immigration officials to use tax data to confirm the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally, according to four people familiar with the matter, culminating weeks of negotiations over using the tax system to support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.Under the agreement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement could submit names and addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants to the IRS to cross-reference with confidential taxpayer databases, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of professional reprisals.
Normally, personal tax information — even an individual’s name and address — is considered confidential and closely guarded within the IRS. Unlawfully disclosing tax data carries civil and criminal penalties.
However, tax information may be shared with other federal law enforcement under certain, limited conditions — and typically with approval from a court. It would be unusual, if not unprecedented, for taxpayer privacy law exceptions to be used to justify cooperation with immigration enforcement, the people said.
The proposed agreement has alarmed career officials at the IRS, the people said, who worry that the arrangement risks abusing a narrow and seldom-used section of privacy law that’s meant to help investigators build criminal cases, not enforce criminal penalties.
According to portions of a draft of the agreement obtained by The Washington Post, ICE access to tax data would be limited to confirming the addresses of known unlawful immigrants who already have been ordered to leave the country. Requests could be submitted only by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem or Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, the memo says, and must include the name and address of each taxpayer, the date of their order for removal and other identifying information that would allow the IRS to verify the taxpayer’s identity. The agreement would authorize data verification for people “subject to criminal investigation” for violating immigration law.
Representatives for the Treasury Department and DHS, the parent agencies of the IRS and ICE, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
If someone is in this country illegally and a judge has already ordered them deported, then there should be no protections in the government for anything about them, especially their address. This agreement is something that absolutely should happen in order to deport them. Which is why they should use the immigration app to self deport and get the heck out.
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-irs-near-deal-with-ice-to-share-addresses-of-illegals-via-tax-data/
