Trump Team Planned to Declare Immigrants Dead to Force Deportation
A former Social Security Administration employee, Jeremiah Schofield, refused to implement a plan that would falsely mark nearly three million individuals as deceased. Schofield discovered that his sample of names included only living individuals and realized the plan’s intent was to terrorize immigrants. Agency lawyers had cautioned that such a misclassification could be illegal, and a Department of Government Operations and Enforcement official reportedly confirmed the objective was to drive immigrants to self-deport or risk arrest by visiting a Social Security office.
John Q. Hosedrinker