Doge is building a master database to investigate and track immigrants
Elon’s operatives Musk’s so-called Government Efficiency Bureau (Doge) has built a master database in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) where undocumented tracking and investigations can be carried out. Immigrantstwo sources of direct knowledge communicate to Wired.
Doge has weaved an immigration database from across the DHS, uploaded data from external agencies, including the Social Security Agency, voting records state. This tells Wired that they can create a system that can be searched later to identify and investigate immigrants.
The scale of Doge’s attempt to interconnect data, including sensitive biometric data, has never been done before, and it issues alarms with experts that could lead to disastrous violations of citizens, certified foreign workers, and disastrous violations of privacy for undocumented immigrants.
The US Customs Immigration Services (USCIS) data lake, or centralized reservoir, existed in DHS, and contained data that contained benefits requests, supporting evidence of immigration cases, and whether the application was received and approved, approved or denied. However, since at least mid-March, DOGE has uploaded a large amount of data to this existing USCIS data lake, including voting data from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), SSA, Pennsylvania and Florida.
“They are trying to gather huge amounts of data,” a senior DHS official told Wired. “It has nothing to do with finding fraud or wasted spending. They have already cross-referenced immigration with the SSA and the IRS, and voter data.”
Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House earlier this year, Wired and other outlets have reported extensively on Doge’s attempts Get unprecedented access On government data, but until recently, little was known about the purpose of such requests and how they would be processed. Report from New York Times and Washington Post One objective was to cross-reference the dataset and leverage access to sensitive SSA systems to effectively reduce immigrants from participation in the economy. But Doge’s efforts to help Trump administration crack down on immigrants seem to be much broader than this. Among other things, it appears to involve centralizing immigration-related data from across the government to monitor, geolocate and track targeted immigration in near real-time.
The DHS and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Doge Collection Personal data on immigration Around the US, continued immigration from the Trump administration has eased it control. “Our administration will not take a break until all violent, illegal foreigners are removed from our country,” White House spokesman Caroline Leavitt said. He said this at a press conference on Tuesday.
On Thursday, Gerald Connolly, a Virginia Democrat and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to the inspector’s SSA office, stating that his representatives spoke to the agency whistleblower who was talking to the agency that warned them. Doge was building a “master database.” Includes SSA, IRS, and HHS data.