A DOGE official pushed Social Security to mark 2.7 million living people as dead.
These were immigrants the administration wanted gone. Once Social Security marks you dead, getting a job or opening a bank account makes you look like an identity thief using a dead person’s number. The goal was to make life impossible until they left.
We only know because a career official refused and blew the whistle. The agency’s lawyers had called it illegal. A year earlier, a smaller version worked, and 6,000 immigrants were marked dead.
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