DOGE exposed our immigration asylum disaster. That was the tip of the iceberg

Elon Musk, Antonio Gracias and the DOGE team recently exposed how rampant migration fraud and authorities corruption became nether the Biden administration. Specifically, they showed however aliens "getting" asylum tin person enactment authorization and, with it, an automatic Social Security number, which enables them to get driver’s licenses, perpetrate elector fraud and person different benefits. 

This already sounds alarming. But the information is adjacent worse. 

Under existent U.S. regulations, asylum applicants tin use for a enactment authorization papers with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 5 months aft their asylum exertion is filed (rather than 5 months aft it’s granted). There’s nary filing interest for asylum applications – meaning determination is virtually nary outgo progressive successful applying. 

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This creates a immense inducement for inadmissible aliens to record fraudulent asylum applications to summation U.S. enactment authorization.   

Venezuelan migrants flown from Guantanamo Bay via Honduras locomotion up a ladder aft arriving connected a deportation formation astatine Simon Bolivar International Airport successful Maiquetia, La Guaira State, Venezuela, February 20, 2025. (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

And portion adjudicating the asylum exertion tin instrumentality DHS oregon the Justice Department years to complete, the DHS prioritizes granting employment authorization applications, averaging specified months to implicit specified applications. 

In different words, individuals tin fraudulently use for asylum and past person enactment authorization soon after, harmless successful the cognition that their asylum exertion whitethorn not beryllium decided for years. 

Asylum was created to support the persecuted. But this strategy means it’s much prone to beryllium exploited by inadmissible aliens arsenic a mode to get enactment authorizations, Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses and different authorities benefits. 

As a result, the strategy is being flooded. Under the Biden administration, truthful galore employment documents were issued to migration parolees (without legislature authorization), asylum applicants and different impermanent aliens that DHS could not support up with renewing the authorizations. 

To "solve" the problem, Biden’s DHS finalized a rule in December 2024 to permanently summation the automatic hold play for expiring employment authorization from six months to 18 months. 

That is, DHS chose to automatically widen enactment authorization without ever considering whether the aliens should proceed to person it. 

According to 1 illustration (shown by DOGE’s Gracias astatine a caller Wisconsin municipality hall), 270,000 caller aliens were issued Social Security numbers successful FY2021. That fig roseate to 590,000 successful FY22, 964,000 successful FY23, and astir 2.1 cardinal successful FY24. 

According to Gracias, the Social Security Administration automatically mails aliens Social Security numbers – without requiring them to beryllium their individuality oregon implicit an interview. Gracias says "The defaults successful the strategy from Social Security to each the payment programs person been acceptable to max inclusion, max wage for these people. And minimum collection." 

Former President Joe Biden's medication ensured the asylum strategy maximized assistance to amerciable immigrants. FILE: Biden attends the inauguration ceremonial of Donald Trump connected January 20, 2025, successful Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty Images)

During its investigations, DOGE recovered 1.3 cardinal aliens who were already receiving Medicaid. They besides recovered among the millions a subset who were registered to ballot – and immoderate who did so vote. 

All this is the effect of wide administrative authorities maltreatment of alien enactment authorization – thing Congress needs to extremity by reclaiming its ain law authorization and by returning asylum (our nation’s second-most important migration benefit, aft U.S. citizenship) backmost to its intended relation of protecting radical from persecution. 

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Specifically, Congress should legislate the principle that migration payment applicants (including those receiving asylum) whitethorn not person enactment authorization until the underlying payment (e.g., asylum) is granted, not conscionable filed. While waiting for their applications to beryllium adjudicated, applicants should money their enactment successful the U.S. via a sponsor liable for their fiscal well-being. 

Congress should besides enact anti-fraud asylum measures, which would importantly alteration the fig of fraudulent asylum applications – and, by extension, would alteration the years-long hold for DHS and DOJ to adjudicate morganatic asylum applications. 

DOGE tin besides measurement successful and analyse migration payment applications astatine DHS and DOJ to place fraudulent applications and region them from the 9.4 cardinal and astir 3.7 cardinal respective bureau backlogs. This would alteration the processing times for the remaining valid applications and reconstruct integrity to our lawful migration process. 

Finally, DOGE should acceptable automatic notifications crossed the benefits lifecycle truthful that erstwhile a non-citizen is denied an migration benefit, downstream systems and parties are likewise notified to terminate their respective benefits. 

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Under this system, if an alien’s asylum exertion oregon employment authorization exertion were denied oregon terminated, the alien’s employer, ICE, SSA, the Internal Revenue Service, and the alien’s state(s) of residence would beryllium notified to guarantee the alien was nary longer working, receiving benefits oregon voting – and, ultimately, that helium was removed from the country. 

By acting now, DOGE and Congress tin alteration the deportable alien population, guarantee U.S. payer benefits spell to Americans first, and incentivize amended compliance with our generous migration laws. 

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