Alone operator The so -called Government Efficiency Department (DOGE) is creating a master database in the Homeland Security Department (DHS), which can track and survey the unwarded immigrants, explain two sources Wired with direct knowledge.
Sources say that DOGE is uploading data from DHS from external agencies including immigration database and social security administration, as well as weaving voting records. This, experts tell Wired, create a system that can later be discovered to identify and survey immigrants.
The scale on which Dogi is demanding interconnecting data, including sensitive biometric data, has never been done before, increasing the alarms with experts who are afraid that it may cause disastrous privacy violations for citizens, a violation of disastrous privacy for certified foreign workers and unspent foreign workers and unintended immigrants.
Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) data of the United States were present in DHS before the lake, or centralized repository, DHS, which included data related to immigration cases, such as requests for profit, to support evidence in immigration matters, and whether an application has been obtained and pending, approved, or denied. Since at least mid-March, however, DOGE is uploading data on a large scale data to this Preexisting USCIS data lake, including internal revenue service (IRS), SSA, and Pennsylvania and Florida, explaining two DHS sources with direct knowledge.
“They are trying to collect a large amount of data,” tells Wired a senior DHS official. “It has nothing to do with searching for fraud or useless expenses … They are already crossing immigration with SSA and IRS as well as voter data.”
Since President Donald Trump’s return to the White House earlier this year, Wired and other outlets have reported extensively on Dogi’s efforts to achieve unprecedented access to government data, but recently, the purpose of such requests is rarely known or how they will be processed. Reporting from the new York Times And Washington Post It has been clarified that an objective is to take advantage of the cross-reference dataset and sensitive SSA system to take advantage of the immigrants effectively from participating in the economy, which the administration hope will force them to leave the county. The scope of Dog’s efforts to support the immigration crack of Trump administration seems to be much wider than this. Among other things, it involves centralizing the government’s immigrant-related data to survey, geolocate and track targeted immigrants near real-time.
DHS and White House did not immediately respond to the remarks requests.
The collection of dogs of personal data on migrants around the US has worked with the constant immigration crack of the Trump administration. “Our administration will not rest until every violent foreign foreign is removed from our country,” said Karolin Levit, secretary of the White House press on Tuesday, said at a press conference on Tuesday.
On Thursday, Garald Konoli, a member of the rankings at a Democrat and House Oversite Committee in Virginia, sent a letter to the SSA office of Inspector General stating that the representatives had spoken with an agency whistleblower, which warned him that Dogi was constructing a “master database” on the figures of SSA, IRS and HHS.
