Immigrants are scared to file taxes. It could cost the U.S. billions.
Immigrants are scared to file taxes. It could cost the U.S. billions.
- April 14, 2026
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and political science, shares perspective with The New York Times
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Over the summer, ICE sought the addresses of about 1.3 million immigrants, and the I.R.S. handed over information on about 47,000 of them before federal judges ordered a stop to the practice. “It’s sending the message to undocumented immigrants and mixed-status families that being in the shadows is safer,” said Louis DeSipio, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine.
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