Trump admin planned to classify 2.7 million people as dead in order to deport them.
The disclosure, first reported by The Washington Post, comes from Jeremiah Schofield, a former senior Social Security executive who worked at the agency for more than 25 years.In the 49-page document, Schofield describes a plan aimed at pressuring targeted individuals to self-deport or visit Social Security offices where immigration officials could locate them.
Being incorrectly marked as dead in Social Security’s Death Master File can disrupt nearly every aspect of a person’s financial life, but that outcome, the disclosure suggests, was part of the effort.Schofield’s disclosure said he analyzed a sample of 25 names from the list of 2.7 million the DHS wanted marked as deceased and found that most of those he reviewed were U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.“At a minimum, none of the 25 people were dead,” the disclosure says.
Schofield refused to carry out the plan, and agency lawyers advised the effort would be illegal, according to the disclosure.
@SatanBurger Yeah the CIA taught thugs like Pinochet how to weaponized the bureaucracy to prevent people from having the "disappeared" declared dead to make people suffer. This is just the reverse.
@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Since I doubt Trump is smart enough to think of this on his own this has cia written all over it. Someone, one of trump's advisors maybe likely asked for their input and decided to try it for sure.
I'm really glad that the whistleblower didn't go through with it but it makes me nervous because they may find someone morally bankrupt enough to try it on the down low. But I'm happy it came to light and people know they were going to do this
