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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Certainly one way to go after those illegals who thought they were free & clear having scammed their SSNs.
Especially if they got the EITC.
Is the IRS a sanctuary agency?
“Illegal Immigrants”
Not “Immigrants”
F-ing WAPO
THE NUMBER OF 11 MILLION is WAAAAAY LOW, IMO.
MORE LIKE 60 MILLION..
SOME HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE 1980 & EARLIER.
They already know where the IMMIGRANTS are.
What they want the IRS data for is to help find the ILLEGAL ALIEN INVADERS with stolen or fake social security numbers.
Said not one WaPo article when Obama/Brandon weaponized the IRS against conservatives. And we're talking about AMERICAN CITIZENS!!! unlike the illegal invaders.
So why not now? Why the delay?
And here’s a knee slapper:
“Federal officials estimate there are roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.”
They aren’t ‘immigrants’.
I hope they go after this objective very strongly. Lord knows some lib irs staffers will do what they can to thwart it.
"Maryland fathers" beware. /s
“Is the IRS a sanctuary agency?”
No, they’re an illegal agency.
Many of them use made up Social Security numbers to work.
If the IRS cracked down on the Employer requirement to verify employees and also matched names to Social Security numbers, they would catch almost all of them.
AGHAST!!!
check water bills on 1 bedroom houses in certain areas...if the water usage is 10x greater than it should be check it out...
Will they also go after the employers who employed all these people illegally?
LOL
Even more interesting will be the left joining us in calling for the abolition of the IRS.
This may be our big chance.
EC
Although I hope they don’t do it, they can find most of the good ones at the Hispanic Catholic Church services. These are the good ones that I wouldn’t mind becoming legal.
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