I know I blogged about this a couple of weeks ago,
but this just sickens me to no end. The
United States Senate conducted a hearing that exposed the IRS’s callous
disregard about identity theft by illegal aliens.
This hearing also exposed Congresses impotence in
doing anything about it. We have a rogue
administration that has nothing but contempt for the rule of law and quite
frankly the citizens of this country. We
are on the road to becoming a banana republic.
Here is what the Center for Immigration Studies concluded:
1. The
IRS encourages and facilitates the commission of job-related felonies, including Social
Security fraud, forgery, perjury, and identity theft as long as these crimes
are committed by illegal aliens and their employers.
2. The
IRS places the interests of illegal aliens ahead of those of American citizens
by forbidding its employees from notifying American citizens, including millions of American children,
that their Social Security numbers are being fraudulently used by illegal
aliens in spite of the fact that these Americans suffer serious harm.
3.
Congress is complicit since it has long been aware of the problem
but has done nothing to protect American citizens from illegal alien,
job-related felonies. I wrote about this in 2009 in a CISBackgrounder: Illegal, but not Undocumented: Identity Theft, Document Fraud, and
Illegal Employment", and yet like Captain Renault in the film
classic, "Casablanca", every time this comes up our elected officials
all repeat in unison "I'm shocked, shocked to find that illegal alien
driven identity theft is going on in here!"
And when the IRS finds out about these felonies, you
would think these public servants would notify the victims that their
identities have been stolen. Wrong! Here is how IRS Commissioner Koskinen
justified this outrage:
- It's in
everyone's interest to have illegal aliens use the identifying information
of Americans in order to be able to file their taxes (since they cannot
legally obtain Social Security number).
- If the
Social Security number being used has been borrowed, that's not the normal
identity theft situation (although it is still forgery, Social Security
fraud, and perjury on an I-9 form — all felonies).
- When the
numbers are stolen and not borrowed, that is more problematic and the IRS
is trying to find a way to protect American citizens without preventing
illegal aliens from filing their taxes (even if this means allowing
illegal aliens to freely use Americans' Social Security numbers).
- The IRS is
"very sensitive to protecting taxpayer information on both
sides" (i.e. protect the information of the identity thieves and in
no case turn them over to law enforcement).
- A bill
titled the "Social Security Identity
Defense Act" that
requires the IRS to inform American citizens that their Social Security
numbers have been fraudulently used has been pending with the Senate
Finance Committee since May 13, 2015, but no one on the committee was
aware of it. (In addition, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Committee Chairman,
introduced a bill in 2011 to protect the victims of illegal alien
job-related identity theft, but once he was re-elected he dropped it, so
it appears that he has no desire to protect his constituents from this
crime.)
- The IRS
does, however, advise taxpayers when there has been any kind of access to
one of its online applications that their Social Security number is in the
hands of criminals. (Illegal aliens using fraudulently obtained Social
Security numbers are committing multiple felonies — forgery, Social
Security fraud, identity theft, and perjury on I-9 forms, but the IRS
Commissioner does not view them as criminals.)
- The IRS does not notify taxpayers in the "very limited case
where people file with an ITIN, but it is very clear that a Social
Security number was used to get job" (75 percent of illegal aliens
use a fraudulently obtained Social Security number in order to get jobs,
so this "very limited" number is actually in the millions).
If you don’t believe this federal government has
turned on the American people, you’d better think again.
Source:
No comments:
Post a Comment