Court Allows IRS to Continue Sharing Immigrant Tax Data with ICE

A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., denied a request from immigrant rights groups to block the IRS from sharing certain taxpayer data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The data-sharing agreement, signed in April by Treasury and Homeland Security officials, allows ICE to cross-verify names and addresses of undocumented immigrants against tax records. The court ruled the groups were unlikely to succeed, noting the shared information is not protected by IRS privacy laws. The Trump administration supports the agreement as part of its immigration enforcement efforts, while critics have raised privacy concerns.