The leaked blueprint reveals ice plan to use IRS data to increase the detention

Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump and his administration began to share the IRS to share taxpay data in order to support the identification of immigrants without papers. Leaked Documents checked by Prublica Unveil that An automated system is in development to exchange data with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the immigration and customs authority (ICE), despite the agency's concerns about the privacy of the Americans.

Of particular interest in the Trump management are current addresses of people who want to capture them for immigration reasons in order to meet a quota of 3,000 arrests per day. As part of the leaked blueprint, the DHS would have to be asked for the names and earlier addresses of targeted persons as well as “the date of a final order order, a relevant criminal law to examine the person, and the tax period for which information is obtained”, “” reported Prublica. The automated system would then try to adapt the information with a taxpayer identification number, access the associated tax file and to draw the person's address from the recent tax period. Names of the DHS in which the required information was missing would be rejected and no agreement would be made. Those who are familiar with the matter said that the system could be started by the end of July.

One of the most obvious risks in this system is that innocent people could be targeted. The IRS should not have a way to review the information from the DHS and would have to assume that the information provided is correct and the criminal investigation is valid. Technical experts and IRS engineers who have checked the documents examined Prublica The “the system could be easily expanded” and without restrictions for what and how often DHS can request data, it could possibly provide more “than just the address of a goal … including employer and family relationships”.

In April the IRS negotiated With DHS, a “Memorandum of Understanding” is and set guardrails to protect the private information of the Americans in order to suppress the tensions about the legality of taxpay data sharing. After all, the non -authorized disclosure of tax tax returns is a Criminal offense This has a penalty of up to 5,000 US dollars and 5 years in prison. But in an e -mail checked from PrublicaAndrew de Mello, the reigning General Counsel of the IRS, rejected ICE's application by 7.3 million taxpayers in order not to meet the legal requirements, and was forced from his job two days later, according to the matter.

The request for an automated system of providing millions of confidential tax documents that are protected by strict data protection laws is unprecedented and a break of the previous guideline, which enabled the IRS monitoring and a limited transfer to other agencies. Despite the abuse potential, a spokesman for the White House told Prublica The “planned use of IRS data was legal and a means of fulfilling Trump's campaign to carry out mass shifts from illegal criminal foreigners.”

The new system would transform the IRS into an immigration of the immigration and at the same time reverse a long -term guideline in which immigrants were protected from deportation without papers to encourage them to pay their taxes, and risk an estimated 300 billion US dollars of tax revenue in the next decade. While the system is supposed to help identify ice cream today, it could soon be used to sniff the citizens and put the privacy of all Americans in danger.