If various courts are flipping out over the Trump administration’s approach to migrants via mass deportations, just wait until they catch wind of the super database that DOGE is reportedly developing for purposes of tracking immigrants.
According to a recent report from Wired, a global magazine that focuses on technology, technocrat Elon Musk and his DOGE team are apparently “building a master database at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that could track and surveil undocumented immigrants.”
Citing two sources that have “direct knowledge” of the database building process, Wired provides technical insight into the ways in which DOGE is going about this database, chiefly through “knitting together immigration databases from across DHS and uploading data from outside agencies including the Social Security Administration (SSA), as well as voting records.”
According to a senior DHS official who commented on the story, Musk and his team “are trying to amass a huge amount of data.”
Notably, DOGE’s actions differ dramatically from the previous databases used to track migrant information.
Indeed, the United States Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) has long had a “centralized repository” for tracking select migrant information.
This information typically included supporting evidence for different immigration cases, status updates on pending applications, requests for benefits, and other immigration-related requests.
However, as noted by Wired, DOGE has gone several steps beyond the traditional USCIS database.
Or, more accurately, DOGE has put the traditional USCIS database into rapidly evolutionary overdrive, as the agency is report4edly “uploading mass amounts of data to this preexisting USCIS data lake,” which includes data from both the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Oddly, other data that has been reportedly consolidated within the USCIS database includes “voting data from Pennsylvania and Florida.”
Undoubtedly, voting data from Pennsylvania and Florida alike is certainly quite valuable to various political candidates vying for influence in each state.
However, in terms of tracking migrants, it would seem that voting data from avowed sanctuary states – such as California, Colorado, and New York – would be of especially immense value to the DOGE team.
Particularly in terms of cutting fraud and waste.
Nonetheless,
Regardless of the ultimate outcomes or intentions underlying the endeavor, it is clear that DOGE is now capable of “[creating] a system that could later be searched to identify and surveil immigrants,” as a direct result of consolidating the mass of data from myriad databases.
What remains to be seen is what reaction, if any, the courts will have, given their rather surprising vigilance to date.
Author: Ofelia Thornton
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