Court Upholds IRS-ICE Data Sharing

A Washington, D.C., federal court rejected a request from the immigrant rights group Centro de Trabajadores Unidos to temporarily block the United States===Internal Revenue Service from sharing taxpayer data with United States===United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This data-sharing agreement, signed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, aims to identify and deport people in the United States illegally, aligning with the Trump administration's immigration agenda. The court ruled that the nonprofit groups were unlikely to succeed on their claim, as the shared information is not covered by the United States===Internal Revenue Service privacy statute. It was also revealed that the United States===Internal Revenue Service erroneously shared taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, potentially violating privacy rules.