Musk's team started by searching for cost-savings in federal government. Today they are DOGE the immigrant hunters

Source: The Independent

Musk’s team started by searching for cost-savings in federal government. Today they are DOGE the immigrant hunters

In the last few months DOGE has pursued immigration-related data across the Justice Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration, Rhian Lubin reports

Saturday 26 April 2025 14:06 BST

What was first sold to the American people as a cost-cutting mission to “eliminate waste” and save taxpayer money, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has morphed into seeking immigration data, experts and campaigners say.

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Its latest data mining conquest is the Justice Department, where DOGE officials have accessed a sensitive system containing detailed information about immigrants’ interactions with the U.S. government.

The system, the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s Courts and Appeals System, contains records dating to at least the 1990s on millions of legal and undocumented immigrants, including addresses, case histories, court testimony and confidential interviews from asylum seekers, the Washington Post first reported.

“The initial mission, as stated, was to cut waste and eliminate fraud and abuse,” Lisa Gilbert, co-president of consumer rights group Public Citizen, which is involved in several lawsuits against the Trump administration, told The Independent. “And very quickly it became clear that that was not their goal.”

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-elon-musk-immigration-data-b2738847.html

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