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A Social Security Administration whistleblower revealed officials planned to fraudulently declare 2.7 million living immigrants deceased to force deportations. Meanwhile, ICE was ordered to stop reporting deaths of detainees released within 30 days, blocking a key accountability
A Social Security Administration whistleblower disclosed that officials devised a plan to fraudulently declare 2.7 million living immigrants deceased in order to trigger automatic deportations. The scheme would have exploited SSA death records as a mass enforcement tool without any court involvement or individual case review. Simultaneously, ICE received orders to stop reporting deaths among detainees who were released within 30 days—effectively erasing a data trail that had been used to track whether people died in custody or shortly after leaving it.
This isn't a bureaucratic glitch or a misunderstanding. It's a deliberate plan to use false government records to expel people en masse, paired with a directive to hide inconvenient facts about what happens to detainees. The first part looks like fraud. The second part looks like obstruction. Together they suggest an effort to circumvent both legal process and public accountability for a deportation campaign operating at unprecedented scale.
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