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ICE reportedly purchased immigrants' tax identification numbers from data brokers to fuel mass deportation efforts while potentially circumventing legal restrictions and court orders protecting this population.
ICE apparently purchased immigrants' tax identification numbers (ITINs) from data brokers to support mass deportation operations, potentially circumventing legal restrictions and court orders that are supposed to shield this population. The move suggests ICE is finding workarounds to access protected information.
This is a deliberate end-run around the law. ITINs identify undocumented immigrants to tax authorities, and there are supposed to be protections preventing law enforcement from simply buying access to this data. If ICE is purchasing it from brokers instead of requesting it through official channels, the agency is evading the legal guardrails. It's not a mistake—it's a strategy to use private data markets to do what courts and statutes won't allow it to do directly.
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