How the IRS and ICE agreement will impact immigrant communities

How the IRS and ICE agreement will impact immigrant communities

Immigrant rights groups are warning that a new data-sharing agreement between the IRS and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will further marginalize undocumented immigrants and threaten billions in tax revenue. The DHS can now access taxpayer data from the IRS to facilitate deportations, according to a memo released by the Treasury Department in early April. The change was among the flurry of the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant act…

Following American Oversight Court Win, Government Unseals Secretive IRS-ICE Agreement That Could Compromise Sensitive Taxpayer Data of Millions - American Oversight

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Immigrant Workers Detained in Targeted ICE Raid - Davis Vanguard

ICE agents conducted a targeted immigration raid at Lynn-Ette & Sons Farms in western New York, detaining 14 immigrant workers involved in a farmworker unionization effort, sparking fear and alarm in the local community.