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DOGE Designing Databases for Immigration Crackdown; Hollowing Out Federal Cybersecurity; and much more

WatchCats Weekly News Roundup for April 22, 2025

Stories Mentioned in this Roundup

  1. DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants

  2. DOGE Has Access to Sensitive Labor Department Data on Immigrants and Farm Workers

  3. Justice Dept. agrees to let DOGE access sensitive immigration case data

  4. DOGE is collecting federal data to remove immigrants from housing, jobs

  5. Musk’s Team Is Building a System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas

  6. A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

  7. Whistleblower Accuses DOGE of Letting Russians Access Government Accounts in Shocking Security Breach

  8. ‘Stupid and Dangerous’: CISA Funding Chaos Threatens Essential Cybersecurity Program

  9. CISA extends MITRE-backed CVE contract hours before its lapse

  10. CISA officials who led Secure by Design initiative resign

  11. Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse

  12. The ‘5 things’ emails are going by the wayside as Musk readies his exit

  13. The Government Is Mass-Emailing People Telling Them To ‘Leave the United States’ Within 7 Days. It’s A Mess, And It Might Be DOGE’s Fault.

  14. Head of I.R.S. Is Ousted Amid Treasury’s Power Struggle With Elon Musk

  15. Trump administration plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing, AP sources say

  16. The ACLU Is Suing the Government to Get Access to DOGE Records

  17. DOGE Visits National Gallery of Art to Discuss Museum’s Legal Status

  18. Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

  19. Doge unemployment ‘fraud’ discoveries are old finds from Biden era, experts say

  20. DOGE Places Entire Staff of Federal Homelessness Agency on Leave

  21. How DOGE Thugs Enlisted the Police to Takeover a Private Building Belonging to an Independent Agency