Questions for Secretary Napolitano: No-Match Immigration Data

Jena McNeill / May 01, 2009

DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano is tentatively scheduled to testify before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee about DHS immigration enforcement policies on May 6, 2009. Given Secretary Napolitano’s novel interpretations of federal law, the Heritage Foundation will be posting a series of questions (and suggested answers) for the Secretary. Past questions can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

Does the Obama Administration support the use of Social Security Administration’s no-match data?

The federal government via the Social Security Administration (SSA) mails out no-match letters when information provided by employers does not match data in the SSA database. Most SSA no-match letters get issued in response to illegal immigrants. SSA should be authorized and directed to share the no-match data with DHS. (more…)