The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it was eliminating labor protections for over 400,000 employees, most of whom are represented by the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union for federal workers.

and most disturbingly, revoke Social Security cards by falsely declaring migrants dead in government systems.

This isn’t policy. It’s targeted erasure.

Under Trump, the DOJ’s role in immigration enforcement has massively expanded. Federal agents have been instructed to prioritize immigration cases, investigate local governments that don’t comply,

In their new roles, Koval and Rehling are now tasked with combing through Social Security databases for information on immigrants already in deportation proceedings.

They’ve spent months accessing sensitive SSA data under the pretense of “cutting costs.” That initiative failed to deliver savings, but it succeeded in spreading fear and chaos among immigrant families.

This entire effort is being led by two of Musk’s top operatives, Jon Koval and Payton Rehling, now transferred from the Social Security Administration to the Justice Department’s immigration enforcement unit.

So if someone appears in the SSA database, it means they were legally authorized to be here. And yet Musk’s staffers are illegally falsifying federal records. Dozens of immigrants have already shown up at SSA offices with documentation, trying to have their records corrected.

But here’s what they don’t tell you, under U.S. law, undocumented individuals are not eligible to receive a Social Security Number. The SSA only issues SSNs to U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and certain noncitizens with valid work authorization from the Department of Homeland Security.

The fence set up last week surrounding the White House now feels even more ominous. While officials claim the policy targets only those convicted of crimes, the implications are alarming: where does it stop? This is unconstitutional!

Deporting American citizens—even those with criminal records—to foreign prisons is unconstitutional and violates core due process protections. The White House has stated it will decide who qualifies for deportation. Will protesting eventually be deemed a crime—and a deportable offense?

American courts lacked the jurisdiction to order his release, stating that the White House cannot force the Salvadoran government to release him and that U.S. federal courts have no authority to intervene. This is wrong — and it makes you wonder: who will be next?