IRS Ice sharing information would put illegal immigrants in a unique tricky place: expert

A potentially historical agreement between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and American immigration and customs execution (ICE) could illegal immigrants In a difficult position, according to one expert.

“It will discourage these taxpayers from even filing the application, so it really puts them between a rock and a hard place,” said Adam Brewer, a federal tax expert working for AB tax law for Fox News Digital.

Comments come because the IRS and ICE are approaching an agreement that would allow ICE to submit the names and addresses of illegal immigrants to the IRS, which could cross them cross-check them Tax records of immigrants and provide an Immigration Agency with the current address of the address.

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However, some longtime IRS employees have expressed concern about the agreement, claiming that the tax agency has long provided for the protection of records in exchange for illegal immigrants who submit tax return, something they need for the law even though they are not legal.

The Draft Agreement between ICA ICE would approve of a “subject to a” subject to a criminal investigation “for violating the immigration law, stretching the definition of narrow exemption of IRS privacy that allows us to use data on taxpayers in the case of criminal investigations.

The deal comes as a president Donald Trump He continued to increase the efforts to accelerate the deportations, following one of the key promises he set on the trail of the campaign.

According to Brewer, stretching the definition of criminal investigations to those who illegally entered the ground would be an “unprecedented” step for the IRS.

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“In order for the IRS to engage in criminal investigations, this is not uncommon,” Brewer said. “They have done a lot of information, historically, with Dea to break the drug revenue, these types of things. I suppose the way I look at it, if an illegal immigration is a crime, if you look at it through that scope, that it is quite unprecedented.”

“It feels like a deviation from what we have known for years … that if you share information with the IRS, it stops there,” he added.

Brewer believes that the agreement could also harm the credibility of the IRS, which built confidence strictly complying with privacy regulations.

“That would be true for any government agency if they said, ‘Hey, DMV will start to turn your address to the ice. “You will get fewer people who register their vehicles or renew the driver’s license.

Brewer noted that a lot of illegal immigrants depends on the submission of his Tax return As a way to help gain their legal status, but the potential for deportation if their records are distributed could distract them from passing through the process.

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“The IRS also knows the LED that these tax return is needed, and now they have really put a great distillation in front of taxpayers from filing the application,” Brewer said.

However, Brewer also admitted that in some cases the information that the IRS provides could show a critical deficiency of a relationship for immigration authorities, pointing out that IRS has long assisted other agencies to enforce the law in other criminal issues.

“If someone just filed a tax return last month for 2024, and the information about the address would be more recent or more likely to be accurate than an immigration document they filed last year,” Brewer said. “If we have information in one ward, you don’t want to spend the tone of time and resources trying to keep track of someone … Just for efficiency, we want government agencies to share information.”