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The discussion comes as lawmakers consider the potential benefits and drawbacks of the proposed change.

Republicans are pressing to boost the child tax credit — a bipartisan goal that would benefit more than 20 million households — in their bid to reshape the nation’s tax code. But they’ve also attached provisions meant to cut off undocumented immigrants that would disqualify many U.S.-born children from the tax break and create complications for some married filers who are both citizens and usually file separately.

It’s likely counter to the law and almost definitely going to cost us tax revenue.

The Trump administration continued its crackdown against illegal immigration this week when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) signed a memorandum on Monday agreeing to share immigrants’ tax data with federal immigration authorities.

Several members of the tax community have raised concerns about decreased filing because immigrants are being discouraged from voluntarily paying taxes amid the Trump administration’s expansion of efforts to use tax return information for tax enforcement.

Several top Internal Revenue Service officials, including the acting commissioner, are preparing to quit after the Trump administration pushed the agency to use its protected tax records to help homeland security officials deport immigrants, according to people familiar with the matter.

One of the biggest myths about undocumented immigrants is that they don’t pay taxes and are a drain on the United States economy — when in reality, the opposite is true. Undocumented people pay federal income tax, state and local taxes, sales tax — contributing tens of billions of dollars each year. They pay Social Security and unemployment tax, even though they are ineligible to receive those benefits — essentially subsidizing the system.

Trump administration efforts to use the IRS in its crackdown on undocumented immigrants are giving rise to worry that the government could improperly use tax data to help with deportations.