Justice Dept. agrees to let DOGE access sensitive immigration case data
About a half-dozen DOGE “advisors” won approval from the the Justice Department to access the ECAS system, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
April 21, 2025 at 5:43 p.m. EDTYesterday at 5:43 p.m. EDT
By Hannah Natanson
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Jeremy Roebuck
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Rachel Siegel
Representatives of the U.S. DOGE Service have received permission to access a highly sensitive Justice Department system that contains information including the addresses and case histories of millions of legal and undocumented immigrants, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
The system — the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s Courts and Appeals System, or ECAS — is used to store records of immigrants who have interacted with the U.S. immigration system, detailing their name, addresses, previous immigration-court testimony and any history of engagement with law enforcement, among other things. The Justice Department’s website states that “ECAS supports the full life cycle of an immigration case” by maintaining “all records and case-related documents in electronic format.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/21/doge-ecas-justice-immigration-courts-trump/
