Millions of undocumented immigrants file taxes. Now their data could be used to deport them.

Immigrants pay taxes.   NPR’s Marketplace discusses the Trump administration’s consideration of changes that would allow the Internal Revenue Service to share taxpayer data with immigration officers. The Washington Post reported on a plan to share IRS data with immigration officials to carry out deportations.

Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code protects all taxpayers, including undocumented immigrants, from having their data shared with agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, according to my colleague Shayak Sarkar. 

“That allows for people to now provide the IRS detailed information on their income and on themselves, without concern that it will be shared with other people, agencies, congressional committees, except under the narrowest of circumstances,” Sarkar said.

KJ