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   Hippy Steve (exador23@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 08:54:14 JST Hippy Steve

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   They are providing the technical infrastructure for a sweeping set of actions aimed at revoking parole, terminating visas, and later on, reengineering the asylum adjudication process, according to the officials. Their first mission: implement parole terminations for 6,300 undocumented immigrants who either have criminal records or are on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist. That effort required coordinating with the Social Security Administration to have their Social Security numbers effectively canceled by adding them to a database that tracks dead people, the New York Times and the Washington Post first reported. Their theory is that without effective Social Security numbers – needed for bank accounts and loans, among other things – these people would “self deport.”

   But what actually happens in the government’s IT systems to make sure that those people are eligible for deportation? Who makes sure that that is reflected in the database? That is where DOGE comes in to comb through datasets at all relevant agencies & facilitate data-sharing between agencies so the enforcement actions can be carried out systematically & at-scale, one of administration officials said.

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     Hippy Steve (exador23@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Saturday, 12-Apr-2025 08:54:15 JST Hippy Steve

     This looks to be a rather important scoop by Politico. Musk's DOGE brats are behind a lot of the deportation shenanigans that have been going on. They're inside ICE and Social Security, and IRS, and etc. funneling that info to ICE and even helping to develop the strategies to deport as many people as possible, i.e. to make the ICE director's dream of "An Amazon Prime for humans" a reality.

     DOGE’s bread and butter has been slashing headcounts but it is now wielding its influence deep inside the nation’s immigration system — an initiative led by one of Elon Musk’s closest friends, three Trump administration officials granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics told POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/doge-immigration-taskforce-00287327

     Antonio Gracias, a Musk confidante whose history with the billionaire goes back more than 20 years, is quietly heading up a specialized DOGE immigration task force that’s embedded engineers & staffers across nearly every nook of the DHS, two of the people said. The task force is also working with DOGE operatives stationed at other agencies like the Social Security Administration & the Department of Health and Human Services, which house sensitive data on undocumented immigrants.

     With Musk’s trusted friend & fixer at the helm, the task force marks a significant expansion of DOGE’s portfolio — from primarily working on agency-wide layoffs to executing the president’s most hardline immigration policies. It’s also a test for how far DOGE’s reach can extend.

     Steve's Place repeated this.