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Social Security is listing thousands of living immigrants as dead in effort to get them to leave, AP sources say

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The move will make it much harder for those affected to use banks or other basic services where Social Security numbers are required.

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  1. Boston

    Social Security lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave, AP sources say (opens Boston)

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    Boston's feed description

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has moved to classify more than 6,000 living immigrants as dead, canceling their Social Security numbers and effectively wiping out

  2. MyNorthwest

    What we know about the Social Security Administration listing thousands of living immigrants as dead (opens MyNorthwest)

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    MyNorthwest's feed description

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's move to classify thousands of living immigrants as dead and cancel their Social Security numbers is an escalation

  3. CBS News

    Trump administration invalidates Social Security numbers of immigrants, pushing them to (opens CBS News)

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    CBS News's feed description

    The move by the Social Security Administration essentially cancels an immigrant's Social Security number and classifies them as dead.

  4. The Guardian

    Trump administration lists thousands of living immigrants as dead to prompt them to leave (opens The Guardian)

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    The Guardian's feed description

    Trump administration is cancelling immigrants’ names and legally obtained social security numbers, effectively wiping out ability to work

  5. KTVU San Francisco

    Social Security reclassifies thousands of living immigrants as dead; cancels numbers (opens KTVU San Francisco)

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    KTVU San Francisco's feed description

    The move will make it much harder for those affected to use banks or other basic services where Social Security numbers are required.

  6. Truthout

    Trump Admin Lists Many Living Immigrants as Dead in Social Security Database (opens Truthout)

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    Truthout's feed description

    The agency’s acting commissioner reportedly said in an email the financial lives of the immigrants would be terminated.

  7. Anchorage Daily News

    Social Security classifies thousands of immigrants as dead, as part of Trump crackdown (opens Anchorage Daily News)

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    Anchorage Daily News's feed description

    The tactic is aimed at putting pressure on undocumented immigrants to self-deport from the country.

  8. Newsweek

    Thousands of Social Security numbers cancelled: What to know (opens Newsweek)

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    Newsweek's feed description

    The Social Security Administration has marked thousands of migrants as "dead" so they cannot claim benefits or legally work in the U.S., according to reports.

  9. Rolling Stone

    Trump Wants to 'Terminate' Legal Immigrants' Social Security Numbers (opens Rolling Stone)

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    Rolling Stone's feed description

    Under Donald Trump and Elon Musk's DOGE, the Social Security Administration is kicking legal immigrants out of the system by marking them as dead.

  10. Salon

    "Terminate their fiscal lives": Trump admin cancels some immigrants' Social Security numbers (opens Salon)

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    Salon's feed description

    Some immigrants with legally obtained Social Security numbers landed on the agency's "death master file" this

  11. NBC 6 South Florida

    Social Security is listing thousands of living immigrants as dead in effort to get them to leave, AP sources say (opens NBC 6 South Florida)

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    NBC 6 South Florida's feed description

    The move will make it much harder for those affected to use banks or other basic services where Social Security numbers are required.

Identical headlines usually mean shared wire copy. They are counted as separate articles but are not independent confirmation.

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