Federal judge won't block Trump's plan to use IRS data to track down undocumented migrants

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Source: CNN Politics

Updated 5:34 PM EDT, Mon May 12, 2025


CNN — 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, the Department of Homeland Security and the groups that filed the lawsuit.

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.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/12/politics/judge-wont-block-irs-data-sharing-track-undocumented-migrants

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45 judge.

[bluestarone]

1. Figures!

[Irish_Dem]

2. Soon all Americans will be tracked for political purposes?

[vapor2]

3. NO DOUBT!

[ruet]

4. Lol, Isn't That The Slippery Slope Republicans...

have veen cawing about for f'ing decades?

[DENVERPOPS]

5. And for sure, he won't use

IRS data to track down the countless billionaires, and corporations that are not paying taxes that they legally owe......

[stillcool]

6. did he ever release his tax returns?

or doesn't he have any?

[FakeNoose]

7. This encourages immigrants to never EVER become legal citizens

I'm not an immigrant, but if I were I'd do anything to prevent Chump's Uncle Sam from ever getting hands on my data. I'd never apply for legal status of any kind, because Chump will use it to track me down and boot me out. This is the proof.

Stay illegal or pack up and leave.

This is so anti-American it makes me sick.

[slightlv]

8. And I hope this proves once and for all to the American people

that they have no privacy, and no expectation of privacy.. not from the government, contractors, or anyone else who does "business" with the government. This judge just deemed expectation of privacy to be a non-thing, contradicting decades of lawsuits saying the opposite.

Just know any information... from the least to the most private... is now fully publicly open to anyone and everyone for the least reason (and probably most money being passed to everyone involved except us).