Two New York Republicans are urging the IRS to probe four legal and migrant advocacy groups that have been taking taxpayer funding \u2014 while defying the Trump administration\u2019s illegal immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n
Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island) and Claudia Tenney (R-Watertown) questioned the four groups\u2019 nonprofit status in a letter to the IRS after an expose by The Post <\/a>that revealed the groups took in more than $600 million in public funds while simultaneously pushing New York\u2019s sanctuary policies.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are concerned that these organizations may be using tax-exempt resources to provide goods, services or legal advice that (1) encourages, (2), induce, or (3) aid and abet an alien in unlawfully entering, remaining in, or evading detection within the United States,\u201d the lawmakers said in a Tuesday letter to IRS Commissioner William Hollis Long.<\/p>\n Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island) and Claudia Tenney (R-Watertown) have pleaded with the IRS to probe four nonprofit migrant advocacy groups that have been taking taxpayer funding. Michael McWeeney<\/p>\n The pro-sanctuary groups \u2014 the Bronx Defenders, the NY Immigration Coalition, Make the Road NY and NY Lawyer for the Public Interest \u2014 provide legal services to poor New Yorkers, including criminal defendants and migrants.<\/p>\n They said based on prior IRS enforcement of rules for charitable groups the groups\u2019 sanctuary activities \u201cconstitutes grounds for revocation of tax-exempt status.\u201d<\/p>\n The Bronx Defenders alone has received more than $500 million in city and state contracts since fiscal year 2018, according to The Post review. <\/p>\n Make the Road NY was awarded $56 million, the NY Immigration <\/a>Coalition $46 Million and NY Lawyers for the Public Interest, $19 million over the years.<\/p>\n The groups pushed for a statewide sanctuary bill \u2014 the New York for All Act<\/a> \u2014 that would bar state and local law enforcement from cooperating with US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents.<\/p>\n