California Senator Padilla Statement on IRS-ICE Taxpayer Privacy Data Sharing Violations

Kevin R. Johnson

Kevin R. Johnson

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California Senator Padilla Statement on IRS-ICE Taxpayer Privacy Data Sharing Violations
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 Press release from Senator Padilla's Office:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, issued the following statement after a U.S. district judge ruled that the data-sharing system between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) resulted in almost 43,000 cases of the Trump Administration violating strict taxpayer privacy laws:

“The IRS’ mass handover of sensitive taxpayer data to ICE isn’t just outrageous — it is flatly illegal. This unprecedented breach of taxpayer privacy tramples the rights of immigrants and citizens alike. Because of the Administration’s reckless, error-prone data-sharing system, innocent, hardworking people who pay taxes and contribute to our economy are being put directly in harm’s way and may have been wrongfully targeted for immigration enforcement. This is exactly the kind of abuse our tax laws were carefully designed to prevent.

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