Posted on 05/12/2025 3:39:18 PM PDT by Beave Meister
A federal judge won’t block a controversial Trump administration initiative to share highly sensitive taxpayer information with federal immigration authorities in hopes of tracking down undocumented immigrants and quickly deporting them out of the country.
District Judge Dabney Friedrich on Monday rejected arguments from several immigrant-rights groups, that claimed the data-sharing agreement between the Internal Revenue Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement violated taxpayer confidentiality laws.
The decision is a victory for President Donald Trump and his immigration agenda. Trump administration officials argued that greater cooperation between the IRS and ICE will protect Americans by kicking out potentially dangerous immigrants who came to the country illegally.
CNN has reached out for comment to the IRS and the Department of Homeland Security.
Friedrich was appointed by Trump in 2017 during the president’s first term. The immigrant-rights groups that filed the case could now appeal her ruling to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
The data-sharing deal allows DHS, which oversees ICE, to ask the IRS to confirm home addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants who are suspected of defying deportation orders. The deal was pushed through in early April over the objections of several top career IRS officials, who refused to sign it because of legal concerns.
Those concerns stemmed from the fact that federal laws strictly limit when the IRS can share taxpayer information with other agencies. The IRS can share data to aid criminal investigations, but the tax agency can’t share data solely to facilitate deportations, which are a civil matter.
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“ immigrant-rights groups”
I Remember when I first heard the expression “welfare rights”. Now, are welfare rights and immigrant rights merging? Many illegals came to this country decades ago, but at least they came expecting to work, not to get “ benefits”. That seems to have changed.
I stopped right there.
Some Judge in Guam pick up the White courtesy phone
Why do the media, Democrats, and half of the judiciary think that a person being in the U.S. illegally is not crime? It baffles me that their position is that since the Biden administration let them cross over the border, then that makes their presence here legal.
Illegal aliens is still the correct term.
Using the IRS to find illegals is “controversial”. The media has the vocabulary of a 10 year old.
That’s exactly what Stephen Miller says over and over and over. Maybe some day it will sink in.
Because dimocrats parse and play with words, that is one of their deceitful talents. The biden group used the app to immediately enroll illegal aliens which resulted in them being immediately LEGAL migrants in the process of coming to the US. It is semantics and words games which is why they DO NOT think it is a crime to have millions of illegal aliens in the US which elicits such visceral responses from them.
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