Federal judge won't block Trump's plan to use IRS data to track down undocumented migrants
Federal judge won’t block Trump’s plan to use IRS data to track down undocumented migrants
"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. ..."
...."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. ...."
2 Comments:
Doesn't want to risk Jail?????
Thanks Sully. Interesting wasn't it?
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