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Shomik Sen Bhattacharjee

IRS Engineers Build Secret Tool So ICE Can Bypass Legal Review And Pull Real-Time Immigrant Address Data: Report

Dispute May Be Headed For Supreme Court

The Internal Revenue Service is quietly building a computer program that would let Immigration and Customs Enforcement pull taxpayer information on demand, giving deportation officers real‑time addresses and phone numbers for people with final removal orders, according to an internal blueprint reviewed by ProPublica.

What Happened: As per the report, the yet‑unnamed system would automate what once required individualized, court‑backed requests, moving from dozens of files to potentially millions.

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