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Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label
The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases include a Haitian asylum seeker ...
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Immigrants Deemed Dead Show Up at SSA Offices
The Social Security Administration has taken the unprecedented step of classifying more than 6,000 immigrants as dead to pressure them to self-deport. Now, some of those very-much-alive people are ...
Has Trump declared you dead? You won’t enjoy it if he does.
The Trump administration has placed 6,300 immigrants on Social Security’s “Death Master File”, effectively stripping them of ...
What to know about the Social Security Administration listing thousands of living immigrants as dead
The SSA maintains the most complete federal database of individuals who have died, known as the Death Master File. It contains more than 142 million records going back to 1899.