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Social Security Backs Off Listing Living Migrants as Dead

Instead, the agency is flagging as “unverified” the Social Security numbers of thousands of people who lost their temporary legal status.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

The original move to classify migrants as dead came as a team from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency rattled the Social Security Administration with a series of aggressive changes.
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