Since taking office, the Trump administration has aggressively transferred the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, which was allowed to go to the country under President Joseph RR Biden Junior.
According to documents familiar with documents and plans by the New York Times, some of them are taking drastic measures to put pressure on immigrants and others, which have the legal status of “self -disposal”.
The purpose is to refrain from accessing public benefits as well as important financial services such as bank accounts and credit cards.
This effort depends on the amazing new plans: re -introducing the “Death Master File” of Social Security, which has been used to track dead people for years, who should no longer get the benefits, to include the names of the living people who think they should be treated as if they were treated. As a result of the death database, they will be blacklisted with a prestigious form of identification, which allows them to earn and spend more easily.
According to the documents, earlier this week, the names of more than 6,300 immigrants whose legal status had just been canceled were included in the file.
The preliminary names are limited to those who say the administration says convicted criminals and “suspected terrorists”. But officials said the effort could be widened in an attempt to add others to the country without permission.
Acting Commissioner of Social Security Administration, Lelland Dodak, has written to his “financial life”, staff members in an email, “will be abolished.”
The move is the latest one of the latest series of extraordinary measures by the Trump administration, which has long been used by Elon Musk and the government’s government’s performance to remove the limits of immigration officials so that President Trump has a large scale of immigration. This week, several top officials of internal revenue service moved to resign after the tax agency says it would help find non -documentary immigrants.
In another unmanned development of this, Mr Dodak signed an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security in February, which shows the federal agency, other documents and interviews responsible for deporting non -documentary immigrants. Under the previous administration, the personal information posed by social security was closely protected, according to current and former officials who said that the agency had not previously engaged in such a large scale data sharing with immigration officials.
Using social security data to freeze immigrants, the administration is developing a widespread popular agency – which is primarily available to send benefits to retired Americans and disabled – Mr. Trump’s “open border” to end his democratic predecessor.
According to an interview with current and former employees, the new implementation role for social protection is raising the concern that poor data results in people, including US citizens, who have been mistakenly or wrongly included in the list, and their financial life has been extended.
“The implementation of immigration is not within the scope of the Social Security Administration, who held several senior positions in Social Security, where he was appointed by President George W. Bush,” said Jason Fichitner, a senior senior position in social security. “The possibility of mistakes can be very fruitful.”
White House spokesman, Elizabeth Hustin, said changes in social security will help to advance the president’s immigration goals. He wrote in a statement, “President Trump promised widespread deportation, and by eliminating financial incentives for the coming and living of illegal foreigners, we will encourage him to present himself.” “He is fulfilling his promise he did to the American people.”
There are many changes to the Social Security Administration by Mr. Musk, who have given rise to the ideology of baseless conspiracy the ideas of the agency, about the fraud by non -documentary immigrants. Mr Trump has raised many of these claims.
The billionaires, who are a top adviser to Mr Trump, have also said without any evidence that the Democrats used the agency to give the immigrants a social security number, which enabled them the benefits that kept them in the United States so that they could change the country’s population.
At the same time, Mr Musk’s team has targeted the Social Security Agency for deductions, which is worrying to the beneficiaries. The staff shortage has stopped some local field offices, and the recipients say it has become difficult to get services. According to a White House official, who entered under the Biden administration, now under Mr Trump, the agency is fighting an additional mission of immigration enforcement.
Mr Biden allowed many immigrants to temporarily enter the country to encourage them to avoid crossing the border illegally. They were eligible to work in the United States, get social security numbers and get federal benefits in some cases.
During the Biden administration, more than 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti came under a so -called parole program, which allowed them to fly in the country if they had financial sponsor and security checked. Another 900,000 migrants used CBP One, a phone application used by the Biden administration, to enter ports of the ports and to stay in the United States and work in the United States.
The Trump administration has targeted both programs. The program allows migrants to fly, the end of this month is to end. Trump administration officials have also begun to revoke the parole of refugees entering the app.
On Tuesday, Irm Mogadaki, a software engineer working for Dodge, also added the first batch of names to Mr Dodak: The list of more than 6,300 immigrants’ homeland security officials identified a temporary legal status, but now it was “terrorist” as a “terrorist”. Mr Mogadsi wrote that the status of people’s parole was canceled on the same day.
The list consisted of a 13 -year -old and seven other minor children, which causes the fears within the agency that it was excessive, according to a person familiar with the list, who spoke on condition of anonymity not to discuss sensitive information.
About 1,000 of the migrants, including medical, unemployment insurance and federal students ‘loans, have received the federal benefits of 000 600,000, including medical, unemployment insurance and federal students’ loans, the White House official said.
Mr Mogadisi did not respond to a comment.
Although the agency has named the death list “incompetent master file”, according to the Times review documents, it has not developed a new way to mark people as disqualified for benefits. According to two people familiar with the process, the migrants who are still being included are being given the dates of death.
Martin Omley, who served as Commissioner of Social Security Administration under Mr Biden, termed the strategy inhuman.
“This is the equivalent of financial murder,” said Mr Omala.
Andrew Begus, who served in the agency during the George W. Bush administration, advised that such changes would help implement Mr Trump’s immigration policy.
“If you are in favor of immigration enforcement agencies, it has no meaning,” he said.
The Trump administration officials have presented the change as a way to fight the crime.
In a memo addressed to Mr Dodak on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Christie Nayeim wrote that the project would prevent “illegally suspected terrorists here” from being privileged for legal activists. “
He did not say how the administration is deciding whether there is a “suspected terrorist”.
Death list
Social Security Agency’s death list is one of the most important data sets. Officials retained death records from state health records, funeral houses and family members, and about three million new deaths were added every year. Which prevents wrong payments from going out.
Officials also share this information with other federal agencies to ensure that those who have died no longer benefit the benefits. And the Department of Commerce sells a version of the list to the Banks, Credit Bureau and other financial institutions that want to avoid the operating accounts of scammers using stolen social security numbers.
People who have been mistakenly included in the list have reported the effects of misconduct, such as forecasting their homes and canceling bank accounts. To remove, they have to go to the field office to try to prove their identity, which is internally known as “resurrection”. But still the problem may take months or more.
According to former officials and agency experts, the re -repression of the agency with immigration officials under the federal tax and privacy laws that rule the care of social protection data, as well as re -submit the list of Amit, as well as re -offer the agency’s secrets.
“The Social Security Administration has a legal responsibility to maintain accurate data for the management of its programs, and strict laws rule the use and exchange of this data,” said a left -hand think tank, budget and policy priorities on the Social Security and Directorate of Social Security.
Trump officials have said that they want to modernize the country’s deportation system by combining the data seats available from different agencies, which have long been part of a wider effort to connect personal data about the people scattered in the government.
Times review documents suggest that Dodge is playing an important role in the process, including the contract to distribute the addresses in February.
Under the terms of this arrangement, the immigration officials agreed to send thousands of social security numbers to the Social Security Administration, which will match them with personal data and send them back.
The ICE collects more and more information to target, survey and detect non -documentary immigrants, though the leaves may sometimes be old in their records.
The documents state that Mr Dodak allowed dodge engineers and ice leaders to use their agency’s data for law enforcement agencies. Michael Russia, a former Chief Information Officer of the Social Security Administration and a member of Mr. Musk’s team, also demanded information to immediately send to DHS.
No agency will confirm that if the data is sent.
Social Security Condition Describe that the agency may disclose information for law enforcement purposes in some cases, including when a person has been charged or convicted of “violent crime”. According to two people familiar with the negotiations, during the first Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the ICE, also called for extensive access to social security data, but it was condemned due to confidentiality concerns, according to the negotiations.
According to a court record, in the recent graduate of a college graduate of a social security system in early February, the DOGE associates were included in the DOGE Associates for a data sharing agreement. The Scott Collile, named as the Chief Information Officer of Social Security last month. And an engineer, Marco Els, who resigned from his government positions this year after being associated with the X account with racist posts, emphasizing the Eugene -based immigration policies.
After Mr Trump and Vice President JD Venice demanded that they be brought back into the Dodge, Mr Elise was re -reproduced.
Kate CornerFor, for, for,. Andrew Daden And Mary Jordan Reporting was contributed. Shelg McNele Research in partnerships.
