An official from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said during an episode of the All In podcast that millions of migrants who entered the country illegally have found their way onto Medicaid rolls and many have been able to get Social Security cards.
Antonio Gracias explained on the podcast that migrants freed into the U.S. under Biden have been able to get work permits and Social Security cards, which in many cases allows them to get Medicaid and to vote.
A DOGE chart shows that during Biden's time in office, more than four million non-citizen Social Security cards were issued--more than two million of them were in fiscal year 2024.
“[Border Patrol] was giving people at times Notices to Appear [NTAs], and what that allows you to do is come in the country and then you’re scheduled a court date like six years out,” Gracias explained.
"So now you’re in the country with some quasi-legal status, you’re waiting for your court date, while you’re waiting for your court date — six years is the average by the way, it could be longer than that — you can fill out an asylum application, so without an interview, just an application … once that application is in, you can file another form, a 765 [form] to get work authorization, once you get that, you get a 766 which is the authorization and we automatically send you a Social Security card in the mail," he went on. "No interview, that is the majority of the growth you see in these numbers."
About a quarter of the migrants released into the U.S. were not even fingerprinted at the border, and there is no income verification when they apply for asylum and are sent a Social Security card.
This opens the door to massive entitlement fraud, voter fraud, and other types of fraud on a massive scale. Let's hope DOGE can do something about it before the entire system is useless.
“We mapped this through the benefit programs, we found every benefits program that is being accessed by these people, 1.3 million are on Medicaid right now, today. And by the way, it’s just ramping up, it’s just starting,” Gracias said.
"We looked at voter rolls and we found that thousands are registered to vote in friendly states. And we looked even further in those friendly states and found that many of those people had actually voted," he continued.
"It was shocking to us. If I hadn’t seen this with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe it … it is shockingly bad," he said.
Gracias said the issue went beyond politics.
"This is not a political issue, this is about America," he said.
When a country effectively loses its borders, can it even be called a country anymore?
