DOGE Has Access to Sensitive Labor Department Data on Immigrants and Farm Workers

DOGE’s entree astatine the DOL besides encompasses information that, portion not straight immigration-related, could beryllium utilized successful conjunction with information that is. Collins, Moghaddassi, and Elez each person entree to the DOL’s Reentry Employment Opportunities (REO) program, WIRED has confirmed. This programme astatine the DOL provides backing for radical who were incarcerated and supports occupation grooming and different employment services.

While the REO database isn’t immigration-specific, the information from REO could beryllium cross-referenced with different datasets to fig retired the migration presumption of formerly incarcerated radical benefiting from the program. If DOGE were to find crossover, a root astatine the bureau tells WIRED, this “would acceptable truthful neatly with their messaging astir immigrants being criminals and abusing authorities services.” (Despite claims from Trump’s administration, determination is nary evidence that immigrants contiguous threats to “national security” and “public safety” oregon that they abuse authorities services—in fact, probe shows that immigrants are less likely to perpetrate crimes than radical calved successful the US.)

Moghaddassi, Elez, and Collins did not respond to requests for comment. Neither did the Department of Labor.

Moghaddassi and Elez person besides appeared arsenic DOGE operatives astatine different national agencies and person connections to Musk.

Moghaddassi has worked astatine a fig of Musk’s companies, including X, Tesla, and Neuralink; according to previous WIRED reporting tracking DOGE operatives, helium has besides been linked to the Treasury Department and DHS.

Elez, a 25-year-old technologist who has worked astatine Musk’s X and SpaceX, has besides appeared astatine the Treasury and Social Security Administration. While astatine the Treasury, WIRED reported, Elez had some work and constitute entree to delicate Treasury systems. Elez concisely resigned from DOGE aft racist comments posted by an relationship helium was linked to were discovered by The Wall Street Journal. Elez returned to DOGE aft Musk and Vice President JD Vance posted successful defence of him connected X.

Elez is besides staffed astatine DHS, according to Politico, arsenic portion of the administration’s effort to bring unneurotic information from a fig of authorities agencies to streamline and systematize DHS enforcement and deportation. Elez, contempt his archetypal resignation from DOGE, has seemingly been tasked with a fig of unusually delicate assignments: He is besides portion of the DOGE squad moving connected a strategy to merchantability the $5 cardinal visas that Trump calls “gold cards.”

Elez is connected this squad with Edward Coristine, the young DOGE operative known arsenic “Big Balls.” Coristine besides has his hands successful galore agencies and precocious appeared astatine the Labor Department, sources archer WIRED.

Coristine is different cardinal DOGE staffer planted astatine DHS. He has besides appeared astatine the Office of Personnel Management, the United States Agency for International Development, the Department of Education, the General Services Administration, and the Small Business Administration.

Coristine did not reply to requests for comment.

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