The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Millions of Taxpayers' Data with ICE

Thursday, July 17, 2025

The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an "on demand" process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the home addresses of people it's seeking to deport.

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A must read story by my @propublica.org colleagues. The IRS is building a vast system to share tax records with ICE and just last month the immigration enforcement agency requested the addresses of 7.3 million taxpayers. www.propublica.org/article/trum ... [image or embed]
-- Mica Rosenberg (@micarosenberg.bsky.social) Jul 15, 2025 at 12:08 PM

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What other access capabilities has DOGE been leaving in its wake?

And access by whom, or what countries?

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-17 01:18 PM | Reply

Ice given access to Medicaid data in move critics call a privacy betrayal
Officials let Ice access health data to locate migrants, alarming experts who warn of civil rights and health risks
www.theguardian.com

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"This is about the weaponization of data, full stop," said Pramila Jayapal, a Democratic US representative from Washington state, who has worked extensively on US healthcare, in a statement on social media.

"Trump said he would go after the worst of the worst' immigrants, yet now is giving ICE EVERYONE's Medicaid data, even as ICE targets US citizens. Oh, and undocumented immigrants can't even enroll in Medicaid."

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-18 06:16 AM | Reply