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Donald Trump hates immigrants and is doing everything he (actually, Stephen Miller) can think of. In Trump v1.0, the administration took immigrant children from their parents and locked them in cages. That got some negative feedback. This time, the main plan is just to arrest (possible) immigrants on the street, send them to detention centers, and later deport them.
However, according to whistleblower Jeremiah Schofield, Elon Musk and the Dogeys were working on an additional plan as well. The idea was to unperson about 2.7 million people, mostly immigrants, by marking them as dead in the Social Security database. Schofield a former Social Security executive, said that when a DOGEy called him to explain the plan, he was shocked and couldn't believe what he was hearing. He wrote up a 49-page report and gave it to Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). He decided to go public now so that Americans can understand how their data can be misused.
Social Security numbers are typically needed to get a job, get paid, open a bank account, get a loan, buy a house or car, pay taxes, obtain various government benefits like Medicare, get a driver's license in some states, and much more. If the SSA thinks you are dead and the organization you are dealing with checks and is told you are dead, they will immediately suspect fraud and probably call the police to arrest you. By unpersoning someone, the government can make it nearly impossible for that person to live in the modern world. The idea is that by making it impossible to function normally, the immigrant, even a legal one, might just decide to solve the problem by self-deporting. Alternatively, the immigrant might assume there was a mistake and go to a government office for help and instead be arrested there and deported.
Warren said: "This looks like an illegal attempt by DOGE to weaponize Social Security to carry out Trump's cruel immigration agenda." Blumenthal said: "Thanks to this brave whistleblower's disclosure, we have more evidence that the Trump Administration used DOGE not just to recklessly slash government programs—they were looking for ways to purposefully hurt people, especially immigrants." (V)