Under court order, the government has released a nearly unredacted copy of the memorandum of understanding between the IRS and Homeland Security revealing how taxpayer data was shared for immigration enforcement.
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Not a lawyer, but I think this means for example if ICE gets sued because they caused harm to someone they found using address data provided by IRS, then IRS isn't liable to pay ICE's settlement, just because IRS provided the address.
If Bessent & Noem knowingly allowed the IRS to share taxpayer info with ICE w/o clear legal grounds, they could face personal lawsuits. They’re not immune from liability here, as privacy violations fall outside their official duties. It’s a breach of trust. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/irs-ice-tax-data
Even if Drumpf wanted to intervene, a pardon wouldn’t cover Bessent & Noem. Presidential pardons only apply to criminal offenses (18 U.S. Code § 3553), not civil violations like privacy breaches. They could still face personal lawsuits. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3553
Exactly. Loyalty melts fast when Drumpf can’t pardon a lawsuit. Nothing humbles a sycophant like a subpoena - - esp when their golden god ghosts them the second it’s their name on the docket.
U r right. Ethics watchdogs could bring attention to this, but individuals affected by the privacy breach, esp those whose data was exposed - - could also file a class action lawsuit.
Definitely, we are involved in this too. It’s about protecting everyone’s rights, including taxpayers. When the government crosses lines like this, it impacts us all.
Yes, u r right. C. Littlejohn was sentenced to 5 years in prison for leaking tax info on over 400,000 individuals. If officials like B & N knowingly allowed similar breaches, they could face personal lawsuits.
Low-income taxpayers may not get cash back directly, but they can still sue B & N for $. Class actions & statutory damages let them seek justice, even w/o proving personal harm.
It's right in line with disappearing people who are expecting to finish their naturalization process, and are handed over to ICE after being told there was paperwork to be signed...
To summon someone for “paperwork” and hand them to ICE,
that’s not law enforcement.
That’s snake belly low.
Bureaucracy as bait.
A state that disappears the trusting is not sovereign.
It’s sick.
It is illegal. If murder is illegal, someone is murdered, and the murderer isn't found, the murder is still illegal. These regulations were put in place after Richard Nixon tried to do what Trump IS doing. Someone asked: Can someone be sued? Yes. Even if it weren't illegal, one could sue.
And what did preparation of this report cost us? And what of the ensuing costs of following up? AND this is just one aspect of DOGE's meddling. Talk about waste.....
Remember lots of immigrants have visas and green cards so they can work here legally. Trump employs immigrants to work at all his properties and private clubs.
ICE can submit requests for addresses of persons subject to criminal
investigation under 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a)(1) or other specifically designated nontax Federal criminal statutes. The IRS will provide the last known address if there's a match found based on the info submitted by ICE.
So, if you just moved in to a new place, you could have ICE agents kicking in your door because an undocumented person lived there before you?!? This is some f'ed up shit!
Just the fact that an armed gang of thugs will kick your door down and tear your family apart over a civil infraction no worse than jaywalking is insane
Sickeningly, yes. A mom and her daughters were detained recently because the gov had a warrant investigating human trafficking. The person they were looking for SOLD the house months earlier. They came, confiscated property, and now have a lien to confiscate the house. AP had a story on it
And now they're trying to possess the home they incorrectly raided (public records showed the house had been listed for sale BEFORE they sought a judicial warrant). And they still haven't returned that poor woman;s property and cash. 🤬
Wait—at first it says IVE must provide IRS with all the immigrants info—and IRS gives them immigrants last known address.
Then, it goes on about how ICE must manage the tax returns they receive from IRS!
Huge difference between a “last known address” and an “entire federal tax return”!!! 🤬
If the IRS is sharing data e with Department of Homeland Security that means they are focusing on the undocumented immigrants that pay their taxes. That’s over 50 billion in federal income tax revenue each year.
Most of these immigrants are working toward documentation, or they were.
Indeed. It will directly (and I think intentionally) influence some immigrants from paying their taxes so they are harder to target. Stop paying taxes, you're now a criminal.
I also expect landlords to start refusing to rent to immigrants to avoid risk of damage in an ICE raid on their property.
They have. Landlords I mean…and that means parents that are already working 2-3 jobs to make ends meet are forced into higher rent costs…or out on the street.
Given the radical right wing fascists involved in immigration enforcement (suddenly immigration, not migration enforcement?), one may suppose one's taxpayer data has been shared directly with right wing terrorist groups, domestic and foreign, and the conservative, Republican criminal network.
Going forward, I suppose it makes sense to be always on high alert for financial crime, identity theft, extortion attempts, that sort of thing. We're dealing with a gangster regime now, as conservative, Republican voters demanded, so watch yourself out there.
In a functioning democracy, the IRS and Homeland Security would be investigating the blatant corruption of Donald Trump and the GOP as they destroy the Constitution for their own greed.
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Nope. I do not support or condone violence. Justice requires a living defendant. I just find it amusing knowing he is absolutely fucking terrified of being outed so he acts like a comic book villan. Techbros obviously didn't do therapy. Missing a whole-ass essential and existential toolbox.
So basically what it says, the IRS (simply by being provided with a filled out form) MUST provide ICE with any current address on file for anyone believed to have committed a crime or is believed to be a non-citizen.
We are furious and wish to file a lawsuit to sue the administration for the harm they are doing, have done, to our right to privacy guaranteed by the United States constitution.
Please advise.
We neither gave nor give, at any time, anyone in the administration permission to share our IRS data with Homeland Security. And yet, it appears that this has already occurred. ....(continued)....
Dear Senator ---,
Maybe you could advise me and some others on how we can file a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration for violating our
privacy. .... (continued)...
ok, I wrote to my Senator asking for advice on how to file a class action lawsuit against the administration for violating our Constitutional right to privacy. Unless any of you are lawyers and know how to go about it....
Keep me in the loop on this. Let’s loop in @meidastouch.com and @rbreich.bsky.social as well. I’m sure they know who to talk to. I always like to tag @ag.state.mn.us as well.
I genuinely wonder how much info the Trump administration has shared with Russia. Taxpayer info would sure help identify targets for Russia within the US.
Immigrants account for 100’s of billions of dollar in government revenue. Undocumented immigrants are still forced to pay taxes by way of a temporary SSN but they can NEVER actually benefit.
They prop the system up.
And it will impact every one of us! Immigrants are keeping Social Security afloat. The undocumented paid $25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022, despite being ineligible for benefits. https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/
Way to ignore the fact that they are still working above the table and paying taxes. Now do the non-law abiding employers that purposefully hire undocumented to exploit them.
It can be hard to steal identities for a living. That’s why corrupt governments and state actors are paying him in crypto for our information. Makes identity theft, fraud and blackmail a lot easier.
@schumer.senate.gov
Either grow a pair and man up or get out of the way ! We need new, younger, energetic leaders who are not about politics as usual ! Leaders willing to actually take action and fight for our democracy and our citizens!
Look for the same mistakes made in Oklahoma to happen with regularity in every other state this year.
I doubt immigrants will stay at their last known address now that the IRS is turning their information over to ICE. They won't be filing their taxes in the future either.
Most of them don’t file on their own. Money is taken out of their paychecks. So, it depends on whether taxed job pays more. It’s hard to give up the additional pay.
The IRS shared taxpayer data with ICE because many immigrants, despite not having social security numbers, pay taxes. So now ICE has information specifically on law-abiding immigrants who are doing everything right. This memo is them admitting that fact.
Undocumented immigrants are required to pay income tax. Those records used to be protected. Now DHS has access to them so they can find people and deport them.
What's interesting about all this. Is all these years, all we heard from tRump/maga Republicans, is that our immigrants didn't pay into the system. They were just a drain on society. This should prove to even the brainless, that they were productive and paying members of our society.
These repugnants sent a list of people under a false claim that they were under criminal investigation to procure personal information to locate immigrants-I say false claim because if there were a legitimate claim there would be arrest warrants as opposed to masked thugs smashing in the windows of
Cars and dragging people out of them and disappearing them in the back of a van. This isn’t even thinly veiled and a totally unlawful use of police power being exercised under false claims of criminal investigations - end this and end these nazis
I see this as a fundamental betrayal of those whose job it was to safeguard not only our data but the very idea that there were lines that people wouldn't cross. WTF, IRS?
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everyone's wish comes true, the United States we'll just have to get a new president; But Boss, the evil religious wackadoo Mike Johnson an The Four Horsemen; "Mr O'Rourke no tattoo", "Mike Johnson is also on the plane this is fantasy Island Tattoo where everyone's wish gets granted"!
Wait until everyone realizes the administration wants to compile an enemies list that consists of anybody who isn't pandering to DER DUFUS. It's not just the aliens he's after.
Last November, I started writing a sci-fi novel based on the premise that Drumpf rounded up hundreds of thousands of citizens and launched them toward a colony world to get rid of them. I abandoned it as too bleak and too close to reality.
Wait until someone tells the general public about their use of AI technology to scrawl social media for facial recognition to match to those IRS records so that ICE can positively identify them.
I'd be interested to see the faces of people who posted others at marches when they find that out.
In addition to this they can scrawl social media to cross reference your face with anti maga/trump posts and stop you at the airport and border crossings . They can cross reference political donations as well
I'm not even going to say it all angry anymore - what's the point? Everyone go stop. Post your faces. Line up for CECOT, I guess. I can't protect any of you that aren't near me anyway and, even then, there's a solid chance my resisting only slows them until I can't resist any longer. So whatever.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/irs-ice-tax-data
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3553
huh.
https://nypost.com/2025/02/25/us-news/irs-admits-anti-trump-taxman-leaked-data-on-405k-filers-six-times-more-than-previously-known/
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/irs-contractor-pleads-guilty-disclosing-tax-return-information-news-organizations
https://www.chamberlainlaw.com/assets/htmldocuments/Improper%20disclosures%20by%20the%20IRS%20article.pdf
Bessent & Noem
😂
And the ones who stayed off the grid? Slipped through.
That’s not just evil.
That’s algorithmic betrayal.
We taught them that legitimacy was safety.
Then used their trust as a net.
that’s not law enforcement.
That’s snake belly low.
Bureaucracy as bait.
A state that disappears the trusting is not sovereign.
It’s sick.
We're the baddies.
I'm continuing to hope they get held accountable but I have little faith in that right now
https://pleniiixa.blogspot.com/2025/05/saudi-prince-mohammed-bin-salman-puts.html
investigation under 8 U.S.C. § 1253(a)(1) or other specifically designated nontax Federal criminal statutes. The IRS will provide the last known address if there's a match found based on the info submitted by ICE.
https://kfor.com/news/local/were-citizens-oklahoma-city-family-traumatized-after-ice-raids-home-but-they-werent-suspects/
When do we start the in person BluDog 2A meetings if you know what I mean?
Then, it goes on about how ICE must manage the tax returns they receive from IRS!
Huge difference between a “last known address” and an “entire federal tax return”!!! 🤬
Most of these immigrants are working toward documentation, or they were.
It’s asinine and harmful for so many reasons. Just stupid and evil.
I also expect landlords to start refusing to rent to immigrants to avoid risk of damage in an ICE raid on their property.
The cruelty is just…it’s appalling.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dvGQsGcLQfE
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Capitol switchboard (202) 224-3121.
Tell them loud:
Vote yes!
Reintroduce every 3 days till it passes!
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This is #idenitytheft on steroids
https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2025/05/01/palantir-deportations-ice-immigration-trump
https://www.business-humanrights.org/es/%C3%BAltimas-noticias/palantir-allegedly-enables-israels-ai-targeting-amid-israels-war-in-gaza-raising-concerns-over-war-crimes/
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nsa-palantir-israel-gaza-ai/
https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/09/palantir_anduril_alliance/https://youtu.be/S-Jo-djilvo?si=KstjFtD4e2rsdxGX
https://bsky.app/profile/politicalbreakdown.bsky.social/post/3ljetj5hwi22c
https://www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-religion-apocalypse-dreams/
https://www.supremecourt.gov/contact/contact_pio.aspx
Class action suit anyone?
Please advise.
Maybe you could advise me and some others on how we can file a class action lawsuit against the Trump administration for violating our
privacy. .... (continued)...
BEFORE Trumpo pads courts with biased MAGA judges who swear cult fealty to him.
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Immigrants account for 100’s of billions of dollar in government revenue. Undocumented immigrants are still forced to pay taxes by way of a temporary SSN but they can NEVER actually benefit.
They prop the system up.
Enjoy the collapse
https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/
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They shouldn’t miss their second.
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Either grow a pair and man up or get out of the way ! We need new, younger, energetic leaders who are not about politics as usual ! Leaders willing to actually take action and fight for our democracy and our citizens!
I doubt immigrants will stay at their last known address now that the IRS is turning their information over to ICE. They won't be filing their taxes in the future either.
Sick of this evil shit.
Ohhh, that’s the oligarchs.
or was that the part that was redacted?
I'd be interested to see the faces of people who posted others at marches when they find that out.