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Morgan Music

6,300 Latino Immigrants Listed as 'Dead' by Trump Administration in Bid to Prompt Self-Deportation

6,300 living immigrants who have lost legal status in the US were added to a "Master Death File" by the Trump administration in an effort to motivate self-deportation. (Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

The Trump administration added over 6,300 names of living, mostly Latino immigrants to the Social Security Administration's "Death Master File" on Thursday.

The move is aimed at immigrants who were issued valid Social Security numbers but have since lost legal status in the United States, according to reports from The New York Times.

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