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#DOGE is…playing a leading role in the administration’s campaign to hunt down undocumented immigrants, using databases from the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Social Security Administration.
From the Washington Post: HUD knows which households include undocumented people because all applicants are required to report their status when seeking assistance. Undocumented immigrants are prorated out of the amount of assistance households receive but have been allowed to live in public housing for years. An undocumented grandparent or parent sometimes lives in public housing with other eligible family members.
The effort to locate and kick out mixed-status households is being led by Mike Mirski, a DOGE staffer at HUD who plans to target cities such as New York and Chicago first… #ElonMusk #immigrants #deportations #HUD #SSA

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The push extends across agencies: Last week, the #SSA entered the names & #SocialSecurity numbers of >6,000 mostly Latino immigrants into a database it uses to track dead people, effectively slashing their ability to receive benefits or #work legally in the #UnitedStates. Federal #tax & #immigration enforcement officials recently reached a deal to share confidential tax data for people *suspected* of being in the #US illegally.

#law #privacy #security #Trump #Musk #WhiteSupremacy #Gestapo

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It eventually helped lead to the physical removal last week of a top career executive, who had been warned he would be fired if he kept refusing to let #DOGE into #SocialSecurity’s systems.

At the same time, #LelandDudek *mistakenly* let one of the DOGE reps into a #SSA database last week, violating the #CourtOrder…. That error led a federal judge to summon Dudek for a hearing Tues…, but the #Trump admin said in a filing late Monday that he would no longer appear.

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More on this:

Inside #DOGE’s push to defy a #CourtOrder & access #SocialSecurity data

Reps of #ElonMusk’s US #DOGE Service have sought for weeks to get around a court order barring their access to sensitive #data & internal systems at the #SSA, prompting career staff to repeatedly resist their efforts, acc/to a half dozen people familiar w/the DOGE team’s actions & records obtained by The Washington Post.

#law #Trump #Musk #privacy #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #judiciary
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Inside DOGE’s push to defy a court order and access Social Security dataBy Hannah Natanson
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@sambowne

Repeating, this is not legal.

It must be able to function via snail mail.

There is no requirement that forces people to have internet access.

It goes without saying that there was no internet when SSA was created. X was not around then either.

If the US Government wants to provide free internet to everyone, fine. Hell, give everyone a free spyphone.

But, there is no fucking way anyone should have to create an account on X.

This is flat out totally illegal, and insane.

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“The Social Security Administration worked with the administration to get…people to “self-deport” by adding them to the agency's “death master file.” … Adding to it people the administration wants to erase is “financial murder,”… Those people will not be able to use credit cards or banks.”
—Heather Cox Richardson, April 11, 2025
#ssa #usa

thedailybeast.com/does-new-spe

Why bring up the fact that Speaker Johnson has no bank account?

Because DOGE’s latest moves at SSA would deny legal immigrants access to banks and credit cards by revoking their SSN’s. “terrorists”, y’know.

I wish someone would follow up on the bankless Johnson story. Does his salary go into an envelope?

Don’t know about you, but I got a slightly better mortgage deal by using auto withdrawal—which means you have a bank account.

A photo illustration of GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson over the background of checks and question marks.
The Daily Beast · Does New Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Have a Bank Account?By Roger Sollenberger

#MAGA - The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X

> The SSA’s shift to Elon Musk’s X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent,
wired.com/story/social-securit #ElonMusk #X #SSA

WIRED · The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to XBy Zoë Schiffer