The Trump regime's plan to give Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unprecedented access to millions of taxpayers' confidential data is an unconscionable invasion of privacy. The IRS is building a vast system that would allow ICE to obtain the home addresses of people it is seeking to deport by matching names with tax records. This disregards long-standing protections on taxpayer data and represents a severe breach of public trust.
According to an internal blueprint obtained by ProPublica, the system could share data on a massive scale with little oversight, risking the wrongful targeting of innocent individuals based on inaccurate or outdated addresses. Former officials have stated that there is no plausible way ICE has millions of legitimate criminal investigations to justify such broad data access. This system prioritizes mass deportation over Americans' civil liberties and due process rights.
This egregious overreach must not stand. I urge Congress to immediately hold public hearings investigating this unethical data-sharing scheme. Robust oversight is needed to protect taxpayer privacy and prevent the misuse of personal information for politically-motivated deportation efforts that undermine core American values.
The public deserves transparency on the full scope of this program and assurances that their most sensitive data will not be exploited.
First sent on July 17 by Coleman
