The Trump administration is reportedly escalating its tactics to revoke the temporary legal status of immigrants allowed into the U.S. under the Biden administration. The latest effort includes adding migrants who are here lawfully to Social Security Administration's "death master file," effectively blacklisting them from the U.S. financial system, the New York Times reports.
Sources including family members, funeral homes, financial institutions, and more report deaths in the U.S. to Social Security, which the agency records in the so-called death master file database. Once there, outside financial and medical agencies as well as other governmental agencies are notified, and banking and financial institutions scour the list themselves to prevent identity theft.
