White House Moves to Cancel Migrant's Social Security Numbers

The part that aggravates me the most is that DOGE staff at the SSA are being used to provide information on individuals targeted by this dragnet - at this point, you can see why DOGE would want to use college grads under 25 with less moral scruples than, say, anyone older with less to lose (i.e. the senior civil servants at the SSA that had recently resigned over sharing this information.) It does also illustrate that “DOGE” at this point is a general-purpose fixer for the executive rather than an impartial efficiency strike team.

This seems to amount to an attempt to change someone's legal status by manipulating the SSA database:

The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and spend money.

"Here ruining people is considered sport." Vince Foster on Washington.