Winning! SS systems won't allow payments to anyone on that list of dead folks.
The Trump administration’s relentless campaign to dehumanize immigrants has taken a bureaucratic turn, as new reports reveal a grim effort to extend that dehumanization to official records.
The New York Times was first to
report on the administration’s cancellation of immigrants’ lawfully obtained Social Security numbers — essentially listing individuals as dead — as a means to impede their ability to make money or access government services and to pressure them to leave the country.
According to the Times:
According to the Times, the administration has added more than 6,300 names to the “death master file,” claiming those immigrants are convicted criminals and “suspected terrorists.” But given the administration’s
dubious allegations of criminality in other recent proceedings, no one should feel confident in the government’s ability to differentiate immigrants who’ve committed crimes from those who haven’t.
Sorry about the left-leaning article but everything else was behind a paywall....Anyone that can find a fairer and more balanced take please post it.
In before the flood of news articles about the 0.02% of recipients who will have their payments delayed for a couple of days while a clerical error is quickly corrected and how this is a literal "holocaust" for the elderly and disabled.
I'm sure a liberal district court judge is being shopped for as I type this.