Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons expressed a desire to streamline the deportation process, likening it to Amazon's delivery efficiency. This includes adding immigrant names to Social Security's 'death master file' to restrict their financial services, making them feel effectively 'dead' in the eyes of the law. The targeted group initially includes convicted criminals and suspected terrorists, but there are plans to widen the net, impacting more undocumented immigrants and cutting off their access to essential financial resources and benefits.
"We need to get better at treating this like a business," Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process "like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings."
The goal is to cut those people off from using crucial financial services like bank accounts and credit cards, along with their access to government benefits.
As a result of being added to the death database, they would be blacklisted from a coveted form of identity that allows them to make and more easily spend money.
Their "financial lives," Leland Dudek, the Social Security Administration's acting commissioner, wrote in an email to staff members, would be "terminated."
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