White House Marks 6,000 Migrants As Dead So That They ‘Self-Deport’: Reports | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump’s administration has reportedly taken a drastic new step to drive out undocumented Latino immigrants: marking 6,000 of them as useless.

People acquainted with the technique shared particulars with The Washington Post and The New York Times on Thursday, saying Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has directed the Social Security Administration so as to add the names and Social Security numbers of greater than 6,000 immigrants, most of whom are Latino, right into a database used to trace useless individuals, stripping them of their means to entry advantages or work within the U.S.

The transfer is a part of a Trump administration scheme to focus on immigrants who’re undocumented however have Social Security numbers, which permit them to entry advantages like Medicaid, unemployment insurance coverage and federal pupil loans.

“President Trump promised mass deportations, and by removing the monetary incentive for illegal aliens to come and stay, we will encourage them to self-deport,” White House spokesperson Elizabeth Huston wrote in a press release. “He is delivering on his promise he made to the American people.”

A White House official advised the Post that of the 6,000 immigrants focused, practically 1,000 are accumulating Medicaid, 41 are accumulating unemployment insurance coverage and 22 are receiving pupil loans.

A supply advised the Times that the listing included a 13-year-old and 7 different minors.

The Social Security Administration acknowledged in a weblog publish final month that being incorrectly placed on its “Death Master File” may very well be extremely damaging not solely to that individual’s well-being, however to that of their households too.

“Instances when a person is erroneously reported as deceased to Social Security can be [devastating] to the individual, spouse, and dependent children,” the SSA’s publish mentioned. “Benefits are stopped in the short term which can cause financial hardship until fixed and benefits restored, and the process to prove an erroneous death will always seem too long and challenging.”