In a surprising turn of events, staff members associated with the Elon Musk administration were promptly reassigned to the immigration enforcement unit — a strategy thought to enhance the use of personal data in pursuing deportations, as one official stated. The Trump administration has increased the jurisdiction of the Justice Department in matters concerning immigration enforcement. Jamie Koval and Robert Rehling, senior members from Elon Musk’s efficiency task force, were moved from the Social Security Administration to the Justice Department’s immigration enforcement department, an action accelerated by the White House’s push to use personally identifiable data in locating undocumented immigrants. This information comes from officials who have been briefed on the situation.
Koval and Rehling were part of a dedicated team under the Government Efficiency Department, aiming to unlock highly classified Social Security information with the avowed intent of minimizing fiscal mismanagement within the government. Regrettably, their endeavors have yet to meet the predicted cost-cutting forecasts. As a fresh business school alumnus of 2020, Mr. Jamie Koval, and machine learning expert, Robert Rehling, their new roles will primarily involve probing Social Security databases for details on countless undocumented immigrants currently face deportation orders. A senior official from the administration, well-informed about the duo’s tasks, revealed this information.
Under the Trump administration, the department has been entrusted with a vastly increased role in managing immigration enforcement. The president has explicitly called on federal prosecutors to focus on criminal offenses tied to immigration, to examine local governing bodies that hinder enforcement, and initiate ejection of migrants by getting their Social Security cards revoked. This latter move involves incorrectly assigning the status of ‘deceased’ to thousands of these individuals in relevant databases.
Details of Koval’s provisional 120-day transfer to the Justice Department were outlined in a memorandum drafted on Tuesday. Coincidentally, the drafting happened on the same day President Trump took another executive step; he issued a memorandum disqualifying migrants from receiving Social Security benefits and ordered the department to redistribute prosecutors across 50 U.S. attorneys’ offices with the mission to instigate criminal cases and initiate deportations.
The confidential memo that housed these details came into possession of the New York Times. It articulated extensive, but somewhat nebulous, authority centered around the reduction of the ‘immigration case backlog.’ The memo also clarified Koval’s ongoing involvement in projects directly or indirectly associated with the Social Security system.
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