Dabney Friedrich, a U.S. District Judge appointed by President Donald Trump during his first term, has denied a preliminary injunction aimed at stopping the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from sharing taxpayer information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to aid in the identification and potential deportation of undocumented immigrants.
Friedrich ruled that the agreement between both agencies does not violate existing federal tax privacy laws, adding that the arrangement makes use of "statutorily authorized tools" and does not amount to a fundamental change in how the IRS handles taxpayer data, as NPR reports.
