US senator calls veterans affairs’ data collection of non-citizen workers ‘thinly veiled effort to instill fear’
by José Olivares and Aaron Glantz from US news | The Guardian on (#7300B)
In letter to VA and DHS, Adam Schiff expressed alarm after Guardian reported on memo to gather information
Adam Schiff, a US senator, is expressing alarm in a letter to the Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Homeland Security (DHS), following a report from the Guardian that revealed the VA was gathering data on its non-citizen" workforce.
The VA told the Guardian some of the information gathered could be shared with other agencies for immigration enforcement purposes.
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