The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.
ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an “on demand” process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the home addresses of people it’s seeking to deport.
Last month, in a previously undisclosed dispute, the acting general counsel at the IRS, Andrew De Mello, refused to turn over the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers sought by ICE. In an email obtained by ProPublica, De Mello said he had identified multiple legal “deficiencies” in the agency’s request.
You know we could make it so you don’t have to file goddamn tax forms every year but NoOOOoo we gotta be Nazis and inefficient
DOGE cutting off ICE would save billions in direct federal spending, and probably save trillions by preventing the huge economic harm caused by lack of manpower.
