#Trump’s memo, sent to #Interior Secy #DougBurgum, #DHS Secy #KristiNoem, Secy of #Defense #PeteHegseth & #Agricultural Secy #BrookeRollins, states that the #military must “take a more direct role” in efforts to secure the border & calls on the secretaries to act to provide the #DOD “use & jurisdiction” over certain #FederalLands “to enable military activities” on military installations.

#LelandDudek — the acting commissioner who was elevated from a low-level position after displaying public loyalty to #DOGE — had qualms about the task, acc/to 2 people with knowledge of his thinking. He thought it was illegal, the people said.

Then #DHS Secy #KristiNoem intervened — & Dudek agreed to move forward.

On Monday, acc/to 4 people familiar with the matter, Dudek signed 2 memorandums with Noem allowing the database action.…

@Nonilex

>> The #SocialSecurity Admin this week entered the names & SSNs of >6,000 mostly #Latino #immigrants into a database it uses to track #dead people, effectively #erasing their ability to receive #benefits or #work legally in the #UnitedStates…. The move, requested by #DHS Secy [& dog killer] #KristiNoem, is aimed at putting pressure on the #undocumented immigrants to leave the country.

It’s begun.

The #SocialSecurity Admin this week entered the names & SSNs of >6,000 mostly Latino immigrants into a database it uses to track #dead people, effectively #erasing their ability to receive #benefits or #work legally in the #UnitedStates….

The move, requested by #DHS Secy [& dog killer] #KristiNoem, is aimed at putting pressure on the #undocumented immigrants to leave the country.

#trump #law #immigration #dehumanization #labor
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/10/self-deportation-immigrants-social-security-dead/

In what must be understood as a tightening of the digital panopticon the fascist Trump regime is deploying to target migrants, the administration has negotiated an agreement between ICE and the IRS to share tax data with the American Gestapo for the purpose of facilitating mass deportations, without the consent of the IRS's acting commissioner - who has since resigned in protest:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/irs-ice-tax-data

IRS agrees to share tax information of undocumented immigrants with Ice

"A memorandum of understanding between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the IRS was filed late on Monday in a case brought by immigrants’ rights groups Centro de Trabajadores Unidos and Immigrant Solidarity DuPage, represented by Public Citizen and other lawyers. The memo says Ice can request information from the IRS for its investigations into undocumented immigrants who have not left the country after receiving a final order of removal from a judge. It is signed by the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and the homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem.

The Washington Post reported on Tuesday evening that the acting IRS commissioner, Melanie Krause, is planning to resign, in part over being bypassed in the decision.

The lawsuit over the plans to share IRS information, filed in March, says Internal Revenue Code makes clear that tax records for all taxpayers must be confidential, disclosed only in ways authorized by statute.

“Taxpayer privacy is a cornerstone of the US tax system,” said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen. “This movement by the IRS is an unprecedented breach of taxpayer privacy laws – confidentiality which has been respected by both political parties for decades.”

Although every expansion of the regime's ability to hunt down and target migrants is an important stepping stone to a white nationalist dictatorship, this policy is particularly cruel and nonsensical. For starters, it deprives the US government of tax revenue because an overwhelming number of undocumented people do in fact pay their taxes. More importantly however, the US government and the IRS have been encouraging migrants to do so for decades, under the promise that this information won't be used to target and deport them. In one single agreement signed by two members of the Trumpenreich, the US government has simultaneously harmed the American people, and forced more migrants further underground, to break our collective promise to folks who otherwise would have stayed below the radar:

"The Trump administration has been working to get the IRS and Ice to agree on some information sharing for weeks, a way to use tax filings to aid in his mass deportations. The Washington Post reported on a draft of the agreement in March, citing current and former IRS workers who said the move would be an unprecedented change in access to tax records and upend immigrants’ willingness to file taxes.

“It is a complete betrayal of 30 years of the government telling immigrants to file their taxes,” one former IRS official told the Washington Post."

Of course, the other shoe of the regime's proposed online surveillance of immigrants using legal pathways to work, study, and reside in the United States, would eventually drop; the Department of Homeland Security has announced that it is now monitoring the social media activity of law abiding immigrants for "antisemitism" - a word that no longer has meaning when used by a regime (itself littered with antisemites and nazis) that seems to think criticizing a genocide, opposing US funding for Israel's bloodthirsty fascist government, and saying Palestinians have human rights too, is antisemitism.

https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-announces-its-surveilling-immigrants-social-media-for-antisemitism/

DHS Announces It’s Surveilling Immigrants’ Social Media for “Antisemitism”

"In a chilling statement, DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin effectively said that the administration is carving out an exception to free speech rights to punish certain viewpoints.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem “has made it clear that anyone who thinks they can come to America and hide behind the First Amendment to advocate for anti-Semitic violence and terrorism — think again. You are not welcome here,” McLaughlin said.

Advocates for Palestinian rights noted that the clear goal of the administration is to suppress speech critical of Israel, as well as punish Muslim and Arab rights groups — similar to the implementation of the Patriot Act after 9/11.

“It doesn’t matter what you actually say. We are at the point where anything short of pledging allegiance to Israel is, in the eyes of the U.S. government and its many institutions, a criminal offense worthy of the infliction of state violence,” said media analyst Sana Saeed on social media."

I don't think anyone with a functioning brain needs to be told that a Trumpenreich regime full of literal fucking nazis, does not at all care about antisemitism. What it does care about is protecting its investment in a MENA region client state it uses to ensure American dominance of fossil fuel availability, and the US-funded genocide of Palestinians that state, Israel, is conducting in Gaza. Furthermore, the Pork Reich is also very concerned with creating ideological justification to unleash its Gestapo (ICE) on foreign students and Muslims in general, as part of a white nationalist agenda to establish America as an ethnostate.

The story here however isn't really about the hypocrisy of a fascist regime hell bent on both punishing dissent and bleaching the demographics of the American population; when you factor in the regime's use of online surveillance, AI technology, and ICE's Investigative Case Management database, what we're looking at here is the expansion of our police state panopticon during a period where the US government under Trump is actively looking to obliterate civil rights and apply its fascist ideological policing policies to an ever widening circle of people; a circle that consists of both immigrants and "natural born" US Citizens. You should care about this not just because immigrants are human beings who have rights just like anyone born in the US does, but because this digitized fascist repression does not have to, and almost certainly will not, stop with immigrants; who it must again be pointed out, are in the US legally and are actually "following the process" to study, work, and reside in the country.

#Fascism #Panopticon #DHS #ICE #Trump #Stephen Miller #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Palestine #PoliceState #WhiteNationalism #KristiNoem #TriciaMcLaughlin #StudentProtests #CivilRights

Judge Xinis forcefully pushed back on that assertion Sunday, writing that the federal govt does have the authority to return Abrego García & that #Trump officials have offered “no evidence” he was a gang member. The judge noted that Homeland Security Secretary #KristiNoem recently visited the Salvadoran prison [to film #GenevaConvention banned #propaganda featuring prisoners] & met w/President Nayib Bukele & other ofcls, saying the jail remained a tool for US #immigration enforcement.

Heute posiert sie als Teil der faschistischen #Magajunta vor salvadorianischem Horrorgefängnis, wohin ihre Junta 200 Venezuelaner ohne Anklage und Prozess und entgegen richterlicher Anordnung verschleppt hat.

Wer sind #KristiNoem s Vorbilder? Maria Mandl? Irma Grese?