Trump's Anti-Immigrant Plan Exposed

(California Governor Update: Becerra is in front with 26.78%, followed by Hilton with 26.35% and Steyer with 21.35% of the votes counted. According to the AP, only 68% of the total votes have been counted.)

Among its many bad moves, perhaps the most shameful is the Trump administration’s treatment of immigrants.

Now, thanks to a former Social Security Administration executive, Jeremiah Schofield, we know that DOGE officials had planned to classify 2.7 million living people as dead, which was intended to intimidate immigrants into leaving.

The plan included some U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

Schofield revealed the plan in a 49-page whistleblower disclosure to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). It offers the most detailed account yet of how officials from Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service sought to use Social Security data in service of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

According to the Washington Post, “Schofield’s whistleblower complaint describes a tumultuous period inside Social Security, as career officials questioned the legality of such efforts and watched DOGE officials gain access to some of the government’s most sensitive databases. In one meeting, Schofield said, a DOGE official working with the Department of Homeland Security described the goal of declaring 2.7 million living people dead: making immigrants so miserable that they self-deported or went to Social Security offices for help, where they could be arrested.”

Social Security carried out a smaller version of the plan last year, marking 6,100 immigrants as dead.

HEADLINES:

• DOGE officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, according to a whistleblower. (WP)

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