A recent federal court ruling just gave the IRS the green light to drop a dime on illegal aliens to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That’s right, under certain conditions, the taxman can now moonlight as an informant for ICE.
In a ruling that has both sanctuary cities and open-border fan clubs in an uproar, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said, essentially: “Yeah, the IRS can tell the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) who is in the country illegally.”
Shocking! You mean the government might finally start connecting dots it’s been purposely ignoring? And don’t even get me started about the fact that illegal aliens are even in the IRS system to begin with – that’s a whole other story!
Back to the matter at hand…Judge Friedrich upheld a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the IRS and the DHS, allowing the IRS to disclose limited taxpayer identity information (such as names and addresses) to ICE for use in criminal immigration investigations.
Yep, it looks like federal law does not give illegal aliens some magical right to keep their info from DHS. This ruling cracks open the door for long-overdue accountability. If the IRS knows where an illegal alien is and they’re tied to a criminal immigration case, ICE can now get that information, taking off some of the former bureaucratic blindfolds.
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