DOGE is building a main database to monitor and track immigrants

“DHS, for good reasons, has always been very careful about sharing data,” said a former DHS employee, who was talking to wired because of anonymity. “Seeing this change is very interesting. In my opinion, systemization is all scary because it can allow the government to seek real or perceived enemies or” aliens “.”

While government agencies often share data, experts say the process is documented and limited to specific goals. However, on March 20, President Trump signed an executive order that all federal agencies were required to facilitate “in -house and between agencies and integration of unpredictable agency.” DOGE officials and Trump management agency leaders have also suggested to concentrate all government data on a single reservoir. “As you think about the future of artificial intelligence, we need to get our information in one place to think about the future of artificial intelligence,” said Stefan Ihikian, CEO of Public Service on March 20.

According to the former employee, access to data that DHS had previously belonged to its various parts was historically difficult. A composite data lake “represents a significant departure in data norms and policies.” But, they say, “doing so with data controlled DHS” is easier to try to combine it with sensitive data from other agencies, as accessing other agencies data can be more obstacles.

This has not stopped DOGE agents in the past few months to stop access to immigration information that had been extinguished in various government agencies until recently. According to the documents recorded in AFL-CIO Federation, AFL-CIO Federation, AFL-CIO The petition on March 15, the DOGE members stationed in SSA, demanded access to the USCIS database, Save, a system for local and state governments, as well as the federal government to confirm a person’s migration.

According to two DHS sources with direct knowledge, SSA data was uploaded to the USCIS system on March 24, just nine days after receiving DOGE to SSA sensitive data systems. An SSA source tells Wired that the types of information are in accordance with the NUMIDENT database of the agency, which is the information file available in a social security number program. NUMIDENT records include a person’s social security number, full names, birth, citizenship, race, ethnicity, sex, maternal name, alien number and more.

It seems that monitoring to protect these data is also more limited. In March, DHS announced the decline to the Civil Rights and Civil Liberty Office (CRCL), the Office of Immigration Detention and the Office of Citizenship and Immigration Judge, all key offices that were significant guards against data abuse. “We didn’t move in the data world without talking to CRCL,” says former DHS employee.