U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed via an email that during the course of a federal law enforcement investigation conducted on Thursday, March 27, Border Patrol agents “encountered seven individuals determined to be in the United States illegally, including two minors,” all of whom were not part of the initial investigation.
CBP says it took those seven people into custody, processed them, and then turned them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
It also confirmed that all those individuals have been transferred out of New York State and are currently awaiting removal proceedings.
“Not involved in the investigation…” Target of opportunity. “Transferred out of state…” Make sure they are far from any support. Typical fascist strategies. God, what a disaster.
Now, the administration is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants and others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the Social Security numbers they had lawfully obtained, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with six people familiar with the plans.
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.
The effort hinges on a surprising new tactic: repurposing Social Security’s “death master file,” which for years has been used to track dead people who should no longer receive benefits, to include the names of living people who the government believes should be treated as if they are dead. 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.
From a review of Hans Günther Adler, Der Verwaltete Mensch: Studien zur Deportation der Juden aus Deutschland* (Bureaucratized man: Studies on the deportation of the Jews from Germany). Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1974, 1076 pp.
Every time I read something like that I am reminded of Stephen King’s The Running Man, written as Richard Bachman (don’t bother with the movie.) It’s been a long time since I read the book, but there are parts that really stuck with me.
The first sentence in the summary on Wikipedia sounds all too familiar:
In 2025, the world’s economy is in shambles, and America has become a totalitarian dystopia
Of all the writers you don’t want being prophetic, I’m pretty sure Stephen King is near the top of the list. I really wish I could believe the part where the main character’s ongoing success in the game show resulted in an underclass uprising, especially as more of the truth was revealed, but that ship left the port long ago and sank before getting out of sight of land.
