Department of Homeland Security asks IRS to turn over unauthorized workers' addresses

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- With taxation play present underway, determination is increasing interest among galore unauthorized workers astir however their accusation connected record with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) mightiness beryllium used.

ABC News has learned the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a ceremonial request, asking the IRS to crook implicit accusation connected unauthorized workers who person paid taxes.

"Is this a concern? Absolutely, it is," said Manuel Cunha with the Nisei Farmers League.

Cunha fears it could person dire consequences.

"You're going to uproot families crossed the country. Not conscionable successful California successful the San Joaquin Valley, but crossed the state that person done this," Cunha explained.

"Hardworking radical successful our communities."

A root tells ABC that the Department of Homeland Security would supply names to the IRS and inquire for their address, emails, and telephone numbers successful exchange.

The quality is putting farmworkers connected edge.

Xochitl Nunez successful Tulare County tells Action News that she is simply a hard worker.

"We are peasants, we are not criminals," said Nunez.

Many undocumented workers person paid national taxes for years utilizing an IRS programme that allows them to study their earnings, careless of their migration status.

Since the start, the IRS promised to not stock their information.

"If determination was ever a weaponization of government. This is simply a cleanable illustration of that," said ABC30 ineligible expert Tony Capozzi.

"Offering a programme to assistance these people, and erstwhile they record something, they travel aft them and prosecute them."

Capozzi, a erstwhile national prosecutor, calls the determination unprecedented.

It comes conscionable weeks aft DHS Secretary Kristi Noem deputized IRS agents, asking them to enactment removals and arrests.

Capozzi says agents tin enactment to analyse crimes, but cannot crook implicit taxation returns.

"There's a payer Bill of Rights that the IRS enactment out, and it deals with the close to privacy, a close to confidentiality," Capozzi explained.

"Then, there's a national statute."

Sources archer ABC the IRS is present discussing however to accommodate DHS without violating taxation laws.

Nunez says immoderate workers are preparing to move, leaving the addresses the authorities has connected file.

"If I americium paying taxes, but present they privation to apprehension me, past I volition not bash it," Nunez said.

In an exclusive interview past month, Action News asked Republican Congressman Tom McClintock astir DHS utilizing taxation filings for migration enforcement.

He supported the cooperation, saying each agencies should enactment unneurotic to enforce national migration laws.

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