Federal Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Blocking Information Sharing Between the IRS and ICE

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling blocking information sharing between the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the immigration agency requested the last known address of millions of people.

The three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found ICE’s sweeping request for addresses of 1.28 million people who may be unlawfully present in the U.S. violated laws established in the wake of the Watergate scandal that bars the IRS from sharing information with other agencies unless it meets “stringent conditions.”

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