DOGE staffer ‘Big Balls’ has access to immigration agency’s data

Four Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers person entree to the government’s information connected an untold fig of immigrants, FedScoop reports. 

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the bureau that handles ineligible immigration, precocious granted entree to Kyle Shutt, Aram Moghaddassi, Payton Rehling, and Edward Coristine — the 19-year-old DOGE worker who also goes by “Big Balls” — according to an interior bureau memo obtained by FedScoop. 

The March 28 memo asks Troy Edgar, the lawman manager of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to person the section supply absorption for the 4 DOGE staffers’ entree to what the memo refers to arsenic USCIS’s “data lake,” USCIS Data Business Intelligence Services, described arsenic a “cloud-based centralized repository of information ingested from disparate USCIS applications and root data.” 

According to the memo, this strategy is accessed done Databricks, “an analytics level that connects disparate sources of information into a unified system.” The memo besides requests that DHS reappraisal and springiness absorption for DOGE staffers’ entree to some Databricks and Github.

The memo FedScoop obtained doesn’t explicate wh …

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