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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Nisei Farmers League President says helium and the league's members are acrophobic taxation numbers could get them into occupation with the Department of Homeland Security.
They judge DHS has requested the Internal Revenue Service to assistance with deportation efforts.
Nisei Farmers League President Manuel Cunha says this has gone excessively far.
"People with ITIN's are not criminals, They're not rapists and murderers. They're not traffickers. They are hardworking people," Cunha said.
Cunha says successful the past 24 hours he's received telephone calls and emails from acrophobic members, who fearfulness the IRS is requesting Individual Taxpayer Identification Number filers from employers.
Immigrants usage the ITIN fig to record national taxes due to the fact that they bash not person societal information numbers.
While YourCentralValley.com has not been capable to independently verify this is happening, Cunha doesn't deliberation ITIN filers should beryllium targeted.
"You're going to rat them retired due to the fact that you've developed the programme truthful that you tin get taxes. Great. Now you're going to usage it against them. Absolutely wrong," helium said.
He says if this does happen, helium worries workplace workers won't travel to work, meaning growers won't person anyone to assistance harvest. He says that would not conscionable interaction farmer's bottommost lines, but the system statewide.
"The employers person to beryllium existent interest for their workers due to the fact that if the workers don't amusement up to work. Now we've got a bigger transgression of a occupation oregon a messiness due to the fact that the economics to that husbandman are going to beryllium immense if helium can't get the harvest thinned oregon pruned and finished," Cunha said.
He says this could mean little nutrient connected the array not conscionable the valley, but each implicit the country.
He wants vale congressmen and senators to prevent this from happening.
"Trump said, helium said, I privation to spell aft criminals. I'm not going to spell aft the hardworking people. Those were his words aft the hard-working radical that enactment with that philosophy," helium said.
YourCentralValley.com reached retired to the IRS and the DHS for remark but hasn't heard backmost yet.
