DOGE staffer ‘Big Balls’ has access to immigration agency’s data
Four Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffers have access to the governmentas data on an untold number of immigrants, FedScoop reports.A
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency that handles legal immigration, recently granted access to Kyle Shutt, Aram Moghaddassi, Payton Rehling, and Edward Coristine a the 19-year-old DOGE employee who also goes by aBig Ballsa a according to an internal agency memo obtained by FedScoop.A
The March 28 memo asks Troy Edgar, the deputy director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to have the department provide direction for the four DOGE staffersa access to what the memo refers to as USCISas adata lake,a USCIS Data Business Intelligence Services, described as a acloud-based centralized repository of data ingested from disparate USCIS applications and source data.a
According to the memo, this system is accessed through Databricks, aan analytics platform that connects disparate sources of data into a unified system.a The memo also requests that DHS review and give direction for DOGE staffersa access to both Databricks and Github.
The memo FedScoop obtained doesnat explain wh …