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DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, an IRS that could ...
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New IRS and SSA Data-Sharing Efforts Raise Immigration Stakes for Employers: 5 Action Items to Address Risk
Federal authorities are ramping up their use of interagency data to pursue immigration enforcement, with major implications for employers. An April ...
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As Tax Day comes and goes, advocates look at impacts of IRS-DHS data sharing agreement
The deal allows ICE to enter an undocumented immigrant’s name and address into the IRS database to pull up their tax records ...
Elon Musk's DOGE is using personal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs for Trump’s deportation plans
Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing and ...
US officials target undocumented immigrants using Medicare data
U.S. immigration officials and the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are seeking to use a sensitive Medicare ...
Judge weighs pausing IRS deal with DHS for migrant data sharing
A federal judge in Washington appeared doubtful Tuesday that immigrant advocacy groups had made a strong enough case to ...
Activists warn Police Commission about ICE access to LAPD data on immigrants
Privacy advocates pointed to LAPD policies that allow information-sharing with federal immigration authorities as cause for ...
IRS pact with ICE to share immigrants' info could cut billions in tax revenue
10% fewer undocumented immigrants filing their taxes would mean a decrease of $9.5 billion a year in tax revenue, a tax ...
How DOGE is combing through housing and other data to find migrants for Trump’s deportation plans
Department of Government Efficiency staffers have been given access to government databases containing private information ...
How DOGE led a ‘hostile takeover’ at the IRS to use taxpayer data for immigration crackdowns
A group of senior career officials tried but ultimately failed to protect the agency’s highly-sensitive database of taxpayer ...
‘People are feeling betrayed’: They paid taxes in good faith and now fear it could lead to their deportation
Experts estimate undocumented immigrants pay more than $90 billion a year in taxes. But this year, after a data-sharing agreement between the IRS and the Department of Homeland Security, some are ...