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‘People are feeling betrayed’: They paid taxes in good faith and now fear it could lead to their deportation
CNN ^ | April 15, 2025 | By Catherine E. Shoichet and Marshall Cohen

Posted on 04/15/2025 4:14:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Undocumented immigrants who’ve been paying taxes in the US are facing an unsettling possibility: This year, that may be used against them.

A recent data-sharing deal between the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security is sparking widespread concern in immigrant communities – though some details about how the deal could work haven’t been disclosed.

The agreement has left many undocumented immigrants feeling hesitant to pay taxes this year and uncertain about what to do, according to advocates.

“A lot of people are feeling betrayed,” says Adriana Rivera of the Florida Immigrant Coalition.

Here’s a look at what’s happening and why it matters:

- Some who’ve paid taxes for years now are scared to file and ‘freaking out’

- We don’t know some key details about how the data-sharing agreement would work

- But the move is already facing at least one legal challenge

- How undocumented immigrants pay taxes — and why

- Experts say the new policy could cost billions in lost revenue

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; illegalaliens; invasion; taxes
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1 posted on 04/15/2025 4:14:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Join the club.
Our taxes have been used against us for years.
And we are legal.


2 posted on 04/15/2025 4:17:19 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many do you think are paying taxes?

If thy have, who’s SSN are they using?

CNN? You must question every word they print or say.


3 posted on 04/15/2025 4:18:08 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Give me a friggin’ break. These far left SOB STORIES are getting worse every day. Illegals paying taxes. ROTFL! Don’t tell me, they have to sell the diapers the government issues them to pay their taxes. ROTFL!!! You creepy libs in the “media” have lost it and have gone over the edge. The only way they maggots are paying taxes is when they buy beer and cigarettes.


4 posted on 04/15/2025 4:18:22 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The RAT "media" and their lies is the greatest threat to America.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CNN: Don’t betray them. We need them for the midterms.


5 posted on 04/15/2025 4:18:45 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I would really like to see the stats... if they can actually be true, of the amount of illegals, “Who Paid Taxes in Good Faith”....


6 posted on 04/15/2025 4:19:57 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes, I’ve avoided prosecution for years by filling out the Occupation box of the 1040 as “bank robber”.


7 posted on 04/15/2025 4:25:26 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Our taxes have been squandered by these parasites in government much more than we realized. You are illegal you broke the law being here and thought by paying taxes, if you paid taxes at all and all is ok. Consider your taxes as payment for your social programs you signed up for and receive


8 posted on 04/15/2025 4:26:33 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hilarious.


9 posted on 04/15/2025 4:27:32 AM PDT by Vision (“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Most excellent, in a way the illegals have paid their trip back to whatever craphole they came from.


10 posted on 04/15/2025 4:28:39 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So according to CNN, paying taxes should allow illegal aliens to break our laws.

Gee now i get why not paying taxes is considered such a serious crime. I never understood we weren’t paying taxes we were paying an extortion fee to be allowed to break the law, well so long as you are an alphabet pervert / illegal alien at least.

What an insane argument.


11 posted on 04/15/2025 4:28:45 AM PDT by Skwor
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you pay some taxes and that makes you exempt from breaking the law

how much taxes do I have to pay to get a free pass on murder?


12 posted on 04/15/2025 4:29:11 AM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They broke the law being here.

They didn’t break tax laws.

They feel betrayed.

Huh.


13 posted on 04/15/2025 4:30:08 AM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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Dear CNN:

Oh boo hoo, cry me a river, how many ILLEGALS pay taxes, smh.

14 posted on 04/15/2025 4:30:25 AM PDT by rockabyebaby (THE BEST IS YET TO COME - (PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP))
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To: fruser1

rotflol


15 posted on 04/15/2025 4:31:21 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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To: Texas Fossil

That was my first thought. How can paying taxes on a stolen or made up SSN be considered, “good faith”?


16 posted on 04/15/2025 4:32:05 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good faith, my derriere.


17 posted on 04/15/2025 4:32:08 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Florida Immigrant Coalition. Wow.... Wouldn’t it be so cool if Adriana Rivera got deported. :)


18 posted on 04/15/2025 4:32:55 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Now that I think about it...

Good faith that they wouldn’t be caught and deported...?


19 posted on 04/15/2025 4:33:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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It’s really gratifying to know illegals were paying up
at the same time Hunter Biden was evading taxes....../s.


20 posted on 04/15/2025 4:34:03 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......" )
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