EXCLUSIVE: Watchdog Wants IRS To Take Hard Look At Anti-ICE Nonprofit Raking In Chinese Cash

A watchdog group is challenging the tax-exempt status of a nonprofit that’s raked in cash from Chinese government-linked sources.

The Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) filed a complaint Monday with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), expressing concerns over the Chinese-American Planning Council’s (CPC) tax-exempt status, the 🏢Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively learned. The complaint marks the latest speed bump for the CPC, a New York City nonprofit organization, after undercover video footage appeared to show one of its seminars teaching audience members how to avoid deportation officers.

“We have several concerns regarding CPC’s compliance with federal law regarding tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) including but not limited to coaching illegal immigrants on how to avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehension and assisting in the facilitation of illegal immigration,” James Fitzpatrick, director of CASA, wrote to the Acting IRS Commissioner Michael Faulkender Monday.

“We are also concerned that CPC is using Chinese government-linked sources to assist in the funding of these potentially illegal activities,” Fitzpatrick continued. “Given the severity of our concerns and the potential violation of federal law, a thorough investigation into CPC’s potential violations of federal law and their ties to Chinese government-linked funding sources to assist in the execution of these potentially illegal activities is warranted.”

The CPC did not respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.

Established in 1965, the CPC promotes the interests of Chinese-American, immigrant and low income communities in New York City, according to its website. The group bills itself as the country’s largest Asian American social services organization that provides more than 50 “high-quality” programs at numerous sites across Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan.