A federal judge on Friday prohibited the Internal Revenue Service from sharing sensitive taxpayer data with ICE to aid its nationwide immigration crackdown.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an injunction that bars the IRS from passing along the sensitive information - including home addresses - to aid in civil immigration enforcement, concluding the policy was arbitrary and violates a law that protects taxpayer confidentiality.

"Plaintiffs' members face an imminent risk that the confidential address information they have provided to the IRS will be impermissibly used by ICE for civil immigration enforcement," Judge Kollar-Kotelly wrote.

A coalition of small businesses and unions sued to stop the controversial policy, which marked a significant departure from the IRS's e

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