Posted on 04/07/2025 4:11:43 PM PDT by logi_cal869
Federal immigration officials are seeking to locate up to 7 million people suspected of being in the United States unlawfully by accessing confidential tax data at the Internal Revenue Service, according to six people familiar with the request, a dramatic escalation in how the Trump administration aims to use the tax system to detain and deport immigrants.
Officials from the Department of Homeland Security had previously sought the IRS’s help to locate 700,000 people who are subject to final removal orders and had asked the IRS to use closely guarded taxpayer data systems to provide their names and addresses.
The two agencies have still not reached an agreement on how much data, or how, IRS will share.
But immigration enforcement officials on Thursday increased the volume of their request, according to the people familiar with it, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of professional reprisal. DHS officials initially said they would send preliminary queries about 2 million taxpayers, and eventually seek help locating 7 million individuals, the people said. Federal officials estimate there are roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
IRS officials were aghast, according to people familiar with the discussion, and lawyers from both agencies have spent recent days negotiating the details. Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause has told subordinates she expects the agency to ultimately comply with the Trump administration’s aim of using IRS systems to help in immigration enforcement, The Post has reported.
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Trump did great job in closing the border.
But the mass deportation is still going too slow.
We need to jump start that endeavor!
Just during the Biden admin, Border Patrol reported an average of 200k for 4 years at the southern border. That’s 9.6 million there alone and then we have the northern border, flights from multiple countries, etc. That’s only the one recorded. A few million probably are not recorded.
We most likely had 30+ million before Biden.
That’s supposed to read 200k/month
Yeah, though I’d say 40 million-plus before Biden.
They should be able to track the Free phones that the Biden administration handed out. Just call them up and schedule them to come in and pick up their expedited Green Cards arrest them when they show up and confiscate any phones so they can’t alert others. An old school sting.
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