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With the deadline to file 2024 taxes only five days away, we’re bringing you a look at how the Trump administration’s push to get data about undocumented immigrants from the IRS is affecting people in the Boston area.

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Keeping up with tariffs: At Regal Fabrics in Middleton, Andy Kahan has been trying to stay on top of costs as the Trump administration announces and pauses various tariffs. “A $4 cost from China was $5 to us in January, was $5.80 two weeks ago, last week became $7.16 and could be something else tomorrow,” Kahan said. His family’s business sources fabrics both domestically and internationally, including from China, Mexico, Italy and Turkey. They’re figuring out where they might want new suppliers and how much of the new taxes they can absorb themselves, but they will still need to increase the prices they charge customers.

The Washington-to-Boston budget pipeline: Amid uncertainty about federal funds, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu put out a $4.8 billion proposed operating budget that would freeze hiring and eliminate 500 open jobs across the city. The city of Boston gets about $300 million in federal funds each year. “Under this federal administration, the only daily constant is chaos and disruption and that means it falls to us at the city level to do our very best to partner, to collaborate, to hold strong and to make sure that we can be a source of stability and opportunity still for our residents,” Wu said.

The word of the day is allision: That’s what you call it when a ship strikes a stationary object. The National Transportation Safety Board has asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to evaluate the risk of collapse for the Bourne and Sagamore Bridges in the event of a vessel collision, similar to the allision that caused the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge last year, killing six people. John MacPherson, canal operations manager for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New England District, said it’s not likely to happen here. “The size of the ship that hit the bridge in Baltimore Harbor was much larger than we would permit to ever transit the Cape Cod Canal,” he explained.

Boston’s best theater: Members of the Boston Theater Critics Association have announced their nominees for this year’s Elliot Norton Awards. Leading the pack are The Grove at the Huntington Theatre, part of Playwright Mfoniso Udofia’s Ufot Family Cycle (read more about the nine-play cycle here) ; and the American Repertory Theatre’s production of Gatsby, based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. The plays received 10 nominations each. Winners will be announced June 2.

Immigrant taxpayers hesitate and delay filing amid fears of deportation

For weeks, the Department of Homeland Security has pushed the IRS to give immigration enforcement access to the tax information of immigrants. This Monday that became a reality on paper, although the details of how it will happen, and when, are not clear.

Immigrants are now afraid the information they shared to contribute to the nation’s economy will be used to remove them from this country, and some are hesitating to file their taxes as a result.

One of them was a man GBH News is calling Elgardo, an immigrant from El Salvador who lives in Boston and works at a car wash. He’s been paying taxes here for seven years. Because he’s undocumented, he hasn’t received the tax rebates U.S. citizens are eligible for, and without legal status he won’t qualify for Social Security and Medicare. But he’s kept paying into the system.

This year he’s hesitating to file his taxes.

“If I submit my tax application, and then immigration gets it from IRS — I have no criminal record, nothing, but that doesn’t matter,” he said. “People from Central America, they [ICE] don’t really investigate or consider why you’re here. They deport you.”

The data in question covers at least 700,000 people who have received final removal orders. In 2022, immigrants without documentation in Massachusetts paid almost $650 million in state and local taxes, according to an estimate from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. Nationwide, undocumented immigrants paid $97 billion in taxes, both federal and local.

A 66-year-old undocumented Chelsea woman, referred to as Maria by GBH News, said she has been paying taxes for 15 years.

“I think the IRS needs to protect us. It’s not just us impacted. The IRS will be impacted because a lot of our earned money won’t be pulled in,” she said. “I don’t sleep, sometimes I have insomnia. I sit in bed and think about how I have children here in the U.S. All I do is exist to work and help my family — that’s it. If the government is asking for all this information, what will this man do? Is he going to send the working people to be deported?”

Read Sarah Betancourt’s full reporting on this issue here.