Against fierce resistance, the Donald Trump administration is enlisting the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration in its crackdown on illegal immigration.
On April 7, the IRS signed an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that alarmed progressive pro-immigration groups and like-minded advocates—and reportedly prompted the tax bureau’s acting chief to resign in protest.
The deal allows ICE to request the tax return information of migrants who are not in this country legally. In recent days, as part of a push to encourage self-deportation, the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration have also coordinated to strip benefits from otherwise inadmissible migrants granted parole during the Joe Biden administration—a group posing national security concerns who have now had their parolee status…
