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Weaponized Compliance: An Alliance Against Migrant Communities |
| | -- By JacobLucero 26 Mar. 2025
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< | The recent agreement between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to share immigrants’ taxpayer information to help President Trump's mass deportation efforts is a blatant disregard for well-established constitutional safeguards. Under the guise of law enforcement cooperation, this agreement embodies a deeply unethical targeting of migrant communities. The IRS and ICE are weaponizing information freely given in good faith to punish those who have sought only to comply with the law. The very individuals who contribute economically and socially, often at great personal risk, are now rendered vulnerable by the very systems they trusted. The IRS-ICE agreement is a deep erosion of government legitimacy and individual rights. |
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> | The recent agreement between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to share immigrants’ taxpayer information to help President Trump's mass deportation efforts is a blatant disregard for well-established constitutional
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What is constitutionally transgressive about the governemnt knowing the taxpayer's address? The privacy of tax data is statutorily protected, but what is the possible constitutional claim? You need to be specific to be credible.
Under the guise of law enforcement cooperation, this agreement embodies a deeply unethical targeting of migrant communities. The IRS and ICE are weaponizing information freely given in good faith to punish those who have sought only to comply with the law. The very individuals who contribute economically and socially, often at great personal risk, are now rendered vulnerable by the very systems they trusted. The IRS-ICE agreement is a deep erosion of government legitimacy and individual rights. |
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The Internal Revenue Code has long maintained a strict wall around taxpayer information, notably through U.S. Code § 6103. This provision sets forth that taxation should be separate from other state functions, ensuring that individuals can comply with tax obligations without fear of political or punitive retaliation. |
| | I know I have the privilege of not having to worry about my citizenship status. But that doesn’t mean I’m safe from the larger pattern I see unfolding. If protecting rights is now a matter of political convenience, no one’s rights are truly secure.Today, migrants are the targets. Tomorrow, it could be journalists. Activists. Or anyone who falls out of favor with those in power. I can’t help but wonder: how many more promises will be broken before we realize that trust, once lost, might not come back? How long before everyone, citizen and non-citizen alike, feels the consequences?
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< | The agreement between the IRS and ICE is more than just a policy change—it is a warning. It shows how easily government promises can be broken, and how quickly trust can collapse when rights are treated as expendable. Migrants who followed the rules and gave their information in good faith are now paying the price for that trust. |
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> | The agreement between the IRS and ICE is more than just a policy change—it is a warning. It shows how easily government promises can be broken, and how quickly trust can collapse when rights are treated as expendable.
Only if it turns out that IRS is not bound by law, correct?
Migrants who followed the rules and gave their information in good faith are now paying the price for that trust. |
| | By weaponizing taxpayer information, the government has not only targeted a vulnerable group but also set a dangerous precedent that puts everyone’s privacy and rights at risk. |
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| | If we accept a system where basic rights depend on who holds power, we lose the foundation of fairness and protection that democracy is supposed to guarantee. Protecting the rights of migrants is not just about immigration, it is about defending the integrity of our government and the rights of us all. In sacrificing the trust and freedoms of some, we ultimately imperil the rights of all. |
| | If we accept a system where basic rights depend on who holds power, we lose the foundation of fairness and protection that democracy is supposed to guarantee. Protecting the rights of migrants is not just about immigration, it is about defending the integrity of our government and the rights of us all. In sacrificing the trust and freedoms of some, we ultimately imperil the rights of all. |
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Why do we need rhetoric about the general rule of law? Isn't the point of the essay that there are statutory limits to the use of tax information and that those limits are transgressed by current administrative efforts? The point is narrow and you do not increase its force by spreading it out.
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