Deep-staters rage as IRS, DHS consider working together to locate millions of illegal aliens

Deep-staters who yet remain in their federal positions are fuming as the Internal Revenue Service appears ready to partner with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other Department of Homeland Security officials to locate millions of illegal aliens living in the United States, according to multiple reports from the Washington Post.

According to the Washington Post, which spoke with at least six sources familiar with the matter, ICE has basic information on millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S. but wants help from the IRS to confirm that information. Though no formal agreement between the two agencies has been finalized, a draft of an agreement said that the IRS would assist ICE with information requests that:

• include names, addresses, and other identifying data of illegal aliens already issued a dated final deportation order; and
• come from DHS Sec. Kristi Noem or acting ICE director Todd Lyons.

While the sources admitted to the Post that federal agencies may share information about taxpayers under limited circumstances that often involve judicial approval, they still caterwauled about the allegedly unprecedented nature of this type of cooperation.

According to a March 22 article from the Post, "The proposed agreement has alarmed career officials at the IRS ... who worry that the arrangement risks abusing a narrow and seldom-used section of privacy law that's meant to help investigators build criminal cases, not enforce criminal penalties."

A follow-up article on Sunday described such IRS officials as "aghast" because DHS now plans to ramp up these information requests. While DHS officials initially indicated that they would seek to cross-reference with the IRS the information of some two million illegal aliens, they expect that number to rise to seven million eventually.

'Some undocumented workers obtain jobs by using fake or borrowed SSNs.'

For decades, the IRS has assured illegal aliens that filing taxes was safe and would not subject them to deportation. The sources who spoke with the Post view this new apparent partnership between the IRS and DHS as violating an understood promise.

"It is a complete betrayal of 30 years of the government telling immigrants to file their taxes," one unnamed IRS official told the outlet.

It also seems to be a sharp reversal from just a few weeks ago. In February, DHS asked the IRS to share the names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of 700,000 or so immigrants suspected of living here illegally, but then-acting IRS commissioner Doug O’Donnell declined, claiming doing so would be unconstitutional.

O'Donnell resigned the next day. He was quickly replaced with Melanie Krause, who told her team she expects the IRS to cooperate with efforts from the Trump administration to enforce immigration laws.

"While we have nothing to share regarding any potential discussions, the United States Treasury is fully committed to supporting our partner agencies in executing the President’s America First agenda," a Treasury Department spokesperson told the Post.

Meanwhile, the legacy media continues to trumpet the alleged contributions illegal aliens make to the American economy — while minimizing some of the crimes they commit along the way. For instance, Reuters extolled the "nearly $97 billion in federal, state and local taxes" illegal aliens paid in 2022. The outlet also noted that some illegal aliens pay into social security without ever collecting benefits, implying they are either selfless philanthropists or victims of exploitation.

However, the outlet practically ignored the glaring identity theft problem associated with illegal aliens paying into social security, quickly stating only that "some undocumented workers obtain jobs by using fake or borrowed SSNs."

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