by Washington (AP) – The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to share the tax data of immigrants with immigration and customs authorities in order to illegally identify and deport people in the USA, such as from a document that was signed by the Finance Minister Scott Bessent, and secretary of the Minister of Homeland, Kristi NoEM.
The new data exchange agreement was signed on Monday in the form of a “memorandum of understanding” in the submissions of the Federal Court of Justice and enables ICE to submit the names and addresses of immigrants in the USA illegally to the IRS for cross-verification against tax documents.
Treasury argues that the agreement will contribute to fulfilling President Donald Trump’s agenda to secure the US boundaries, and part of his greater nationwide approach of immigration, which has led to deportations, workplace robberies and the use of a war law from the 18th century to deport Venezuela migrants.
However, supporters say that the IRS DHS information exchange contract violates long-term data protection laws and reduces the privacy of all Americans.
The basis for the agreement is based on “long -standing authorities that were granted by the congress that serve to protect the privacy of the law of Americans and at the same time rationalize the ability to persecute criminals,” said a state treasurer who spoke about the condition of anonymity to explain the thinking of the agency about the agreement.
The IRS had already been asked to help the immigration implemented at the beginning of this year.
In February in February, after a letter received by the Associated Press in February, an application to Bessent to support IRS criminal investigative workers in the immigration. It quotes the IRS funding boost, although the fund infusion of 80 billion US dollars has already been withdrawn, which has already been retained as part of the Democrats law in the Inflation Reduction Act.
A survey by tax law administrators for the NYU Tax Law Center wrote on Monday that the IRS DHS agreement was threatened to violate the rights that many other Americans have under longstanding laws that protect their tax information from illegal disclosure or distribution.
“In fact, it is difficult to recognize how the IRS can publish information on DHS while complying with the data protection laws of taxpayers,” they said, “IRS officials who under these circumstances conclude the risk of a law that violates the law, which could lead to criminal and civilian sanctions.”
The memo states that IRS and Ice “will fulfill their duties in a way that acknowledge and improve the privacy of the individual and ensure that their activities match laws, regulations and good administrative practices”.
Representatives of DHS and ICE did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
