Washington (AP) – The Trump administration has decided to classify more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead, canceling their social security numbers and effectively destroying their ability to work or receive advantages in order to make them leave the country, according to two people familiar with the situation.
This decision will make much more difficult for affected people to use banks or other basic services where social security numbers are required. This is part of a wider effort by the president Donald Trump has Catchage against immigrants who have been authorized to enter and stay temporarily in the United States as part of programs instituted by its predecessor, Joe Biden.
The Trump administration moves the names of immigrants and legally obtained social security numbers to a database that federal officials normally use to follow the deceased, according to the two people familiar with movements and their ramifications. They spoke under the cover of anonymity on Thursday evening because the plans had not yet been publicly detailed.
The officials said that undressing immigrants from their number of social security would reduce them from many financial services and encourage them to “self-refer” and abandon the United States for their countries of birth.
It was not immediately clear how the 6,000 immigrants and more were chosen. But Trump’s White House temporarily targeted the country in the country as part of the Biden era programs, including more than 900,000 immigrants who entered the United States using the CBP One application of this administration.
On Monday, the Ministry of Internal Security revoked the legal status of immigrants who used this application. They had generally been authorized to stay in the United States for two years with the work permit under parole Authority during the Biden era, but we now expect it to be.
Meanwhile, a federal judge said on Thursday that she was stopping the Trump administration to order hundreds of Thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaragues and Venezuelans With temporary legal status to leave the country later this month.
A representative of the Social Security Administration did not respond to a request for comments on the news that living immigrants were classified as dead. The agency maintains the most complete federal database of the deceased and the file contains more than 142 million files, which date back to 1899.
The privacy law allows social security administration to disclose information to the police in limited circumstances, which includes a violent crime or another criminal activity.
The DHS and the Treasury Department have signed an agreement this week which would allow the IRS to share the tax data of immigrants with immigration and the application of customs in order to identify and deport people illegally in the United States, the agreement will allow ice to subject the names and addresses of immigrants to the United States illegally at the IRS for an ice cream against tax recordings.
The IRS interim commissioner, Melanie Krause, who has been used for this capacity since February, resigned on this case.
In March, on the other hand, a federal judge temporarily blocked a team accused of reducing federal jobs and reducing the government led by the billionaire Elon Musk Since Social security Systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans, calling for their work there a “fishing expedition”.
Skye Perryman, president and chief executive officer of Democracy Forward, a defense group who challenged various Trump administration efforts in court, said his organization would probably also pursue the social security numbers, once more details.
“This president continues to engage in behavior without law, to violate the law and to mistreat our systems of checks and counterweights,” said Perryman.
