The Iranian American Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday, alleging it illegally shared confidential information about Iranians seeking asylum in the United States with the Iranian government.

The organization filed the complaint in the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., alleging that the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security began sharing sensitive information in March 2025, putting pro-democracy protesters, religious minorities, and those who identify as LGBT at risk of being subjected to persecution or death in Iran. The information pertains to data about Iranian nationals being removed from the U.S. by Immigration and Customs Enforcement that would reveal or infer to the Iranian authorities “that the individual to be removed had applied for asylum,” putting asylum-seekers at risk by disclosing their reasons for fleeing the country, according to plaintiffs.