6.3K migrants moved to Social Security’s ‘death’ list

More than 6,300 migrants who are authorized to work in the U.S. have been moved to a Social Security Administration (SSA) list of people who have died after officials deemed them to pose security threats or as wanted by federal law enforcement agencies.

A White House official confirmed to NewsNation that the immigrants who were transferred to the SSA’s Ineligible Master File — previously known as the Death Master File — were found by the Department of Homeland Security to be on the terrorist watch list or to have FBI criminal records. All of those moved to the list entered the U.S. illegally during the Biden administration, the official stated.

As of April 8, those on the list lost their temporary parole from Customs and Border Protection, making them ineligible to obtain work authorization or receive benefits such as unemployment payments, college loans or Medicaid, the official said.

Others, however, have raised concerns about adding living people to a list supposedly reserved for those who have died. The New York Times, citing two people with knowledge of the process of adding the migrants to the list, which includes children, said that they will be given supposed dates of death. In addition to losing the ability to work or collect federal benefits, the lack of a Social Security number makes other financial matters difficult, the report said.

“It’s tantamount to financial murder,” Martin O’Malley, who served as the commissioner of the SSA during the Biden administration, told the newspaper. LINK