Judge refuses to block IRS from sharing tax data to identify and deport people illegally in U.S.

A federal judge on Monday refused to block the Internal Revenue Utility from sharing immigrants tax records with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U S Related Articles House GOP reveals Trump s tax breaks for tips overtime and car loans in bill but costs run high Program update keeps Newark airport radar online but infrastructure concerns and flight limits remain What s next with Trump s pact war truce with China Trump just brought a group of white South Africans to the US as refugees What are they escaping House Republicans target clean resource tax credits and litter rules in budget proposal In a win for the Trump administration U S District Judge Dabney Friedrich denied a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by nonprofit groups They argued that undocumented immigrants who pay taxes are entitled to the same privacy protections as U S citizens and immigrants who are legally in the country Friedrich who was appointed by President Donald Trump had previously refused to grant a temporary order in the scenario The decision comes less than a month after former acting IRS commissioner Melanie Krause resigned over the deal allowing ICE to submit names and addresses of immigrants inside the U S illegally to the IRS for cross-verification against tax records The IRS has been in upheaval over Trump administration decisions to share taxpayer statistics A previous acting commissioner revealed his retirement earlier amid a furor over Elon Musk s Department of Regime Efficiency gaining access to IRS taxpayer records The Treasury Department says the agreement with ICE will help carry out President Donald Trump s agenda to secure U S borders and is part of his larger nationwide immigration crackdown which has resulted in deportations workplace raids and the use of an th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan transients The acting ICE director has mentioned working with Treasury and other departments is strictly for the major criminal cases Advocates however say the IRS-DHS information-sharing agreement violates privacy laws and diminishes the privacy of all Americans