WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 -- Sen. Alex Padilla issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee, issued the following statement after a U.S. district judge ruled (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/26/irs-data-federal-judge-dhs-illegal/) that the data-sharing system between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) resulted in almost 43,000 cases of the Trump Administration violating strict taxpayer privacy laws:
"The IRS' mass handover of sensitive taxpayer data to ICE isn't just outrageous - it is flatly illegal. This unprecedented breach of taxpayer privacy tramples the rights of immigrants and ...