IRS will share taxpayer data with DHS about immigrants illegally in US | IRS veterans have raised concerns about the unprecedented use of tax data

This may be one of the most hateful statements by a public official that I’ve ever seen:

> “Biden not only allowed millions of illegal aliens to flood into our country — he lost them due to incompetence and improper processing,” a DHS official said. “Information sharing across agencies is essential to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals, determine what public safety and terror threats may exist so we can neutralize them, scrub these individuals from voter rolls, as well as identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense.”

Of course, this comes with a host of consequences, including keeping immigrants in a legal limbo disaster.

> Current and former agency officials also said they worry the new policy could affect tax collections and discourage immigrants without legal status who are working from paying taxes for a variety of reasons.
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> The IRS has allowed immigrants without legal status to file income tax returns with individual tax numbers. These migrants contributed $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes using borrowed or fraudulent Social Security numbers, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.

This is why America should have a general data protection laws, not “solve” problems ad hoc (like going after TikTok over data protection) because you cant constantly go after data abuses

Also any Americans on here lambasting certain euro governments for not collecting racial or religious data certainly have some apologising for do, even though abuse of data like these by rogue governments just like this.