Chuck Darwin<p>With Musk’s trusted friend and fixer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Antonio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Antonio</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Gracias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gracias</span></a> at the helm, the task force marks a significant expansion of DOGE’s portfolio <br>— from primarily working on agency-wide <a href="https://c.im/tags/layoffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>layoffs</span></a> to executing the president’s most hardline <a href="https://c.im/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> policies. </p><p>It’s also a test for how far DOGE’s reach can extend.</p><p>Key DOGE engineers now embedded at DHS include Kyle <a href="https://c.im/tags/Schutt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Schutt</span></a>, Edward <a href="https://c.im/tags/Coristine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coristine</span></a>, (aka “Big Balls”) and Mark <a href="https://c.im/tags/Elez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Elez</span></a>, according to their government email addresses. <br>At least two others, Aram <a href="https://c.im/tags/Moghaddassi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Moghaddassi</span></a> and Payton <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rehling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rehling</span></a> also have access to DHS data, as DOGE fingerprints are spread throughout DHS, <br>including Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure and Security Agency.</p><p>🆘 They are providing the technical infrastructure for a sweeping set of actions aimed at revoking parole, terminating visas, and later on, reengineering the asylum adjudication process, according to the officials.<br>Their first mission: <br>🔥implement parole terminations for 6,300 undocumented immigrants who either have criminal records or are on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist. </p><p>🔥That effort required coordinating with the Social Security Administration to have their Social Security numbers effectively canceled by adding them to a database that tracks dead people, the New York Times and the Washington Post first reported. </p><p>Their theory is that without effective Social Security numbers – needed for bank accounts and loans, among other things – these people would “self deport.”</p><p>Last week, the plan was finalized in a high-level White House meeting with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Gracias and other senior DOGE staffers and White House officials, two of the officials said.<br>❌In recent weeks, the Trump administration has moved aggressively in its effort to revoke parole, visas and temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants and students, <br>many of whom were granted the ability to legally study and work in the United States in the short-term under Biden administration policies.<br>But what actually happens in the government’s IT systems to make sure that those people are eligible for deportation? <br>Who makes sure that that is reflected in the database?</p><p>That is where DOGE comes in <br>to comb through datasets at all relevant agencies and facilitate data-sharing between agencies <br>so the enforcement actions can be carried out systematically and at-scale, one of administration officials said.<br><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/doge-immigration-taskforce-00287327" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.com/news/2025/04/11/d</span><span class="invisible">oge-immigration-taskforce-00287327</span></a></p>