IRS Shared Tax Data on 47,000 Taxpayers With ICE, Official Says

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) shared information on more than 47,000 taxpayers with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for use in the administration’s deportation efforts, according to new court documents. In a filing on Wednesday, IRS Chief Risk and Control Officer Dottie Romo confirmed in a sworn declaration that IRS taxpayer data was shared with federal immigration officials under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that DHS signed with the Treasury Department last year. The memo allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to request names and addresses of persons suspected of being illegal immigrants. Romo said in the court filing that the IRS identified 47,289 last known addresses of the names that DHS had requested. DHS had requested the addresses of 1.28 million people under the memorandum, according to the court papers....