DOGE-style fraud, waste and abuse auditing of federal benefits and immigration data

Map the entire system end-to-end before drawing conclusions.

Gracias’ team diagrammed SSA from initial enumeration (getting a number) through field-office operations and benefit disbursement to see where fraud enters.

Why: Without a full-system view, isolated data points can be misinterpreted; end-to-end mapping exposes hidden ramps and leakage.

"we map the entire system from beginning to end… enumeration all the way to the end, went to the offices and saw how the offices operate"

Baseline legitimate usage first, then flag anomalous growth.

They established 300-400k/year as the historical norm for EB issuances to legal parolees (e.g., Afghan translators) before the 2021-2024 spike to 2.1 million.

Why: Separates policy abuse from policy intent and quantifies the scale of misuse.

"that should be happened… the baseline number… what jumped out at us wasn’t that this is here because it has a legitimate use, it’s that it’s the growth"

Absence of biometric and documentary checks enables duplicate or fictitious identities.

23 % of EB records lacked fingerprints; top reported birth-date was 1-1 (four times the next most common), indicating fabricated documents.

Why: Weak KYC at the border cascades into downstream systems (SSN, Medicaid, voter rolls).

"there's no real ID verification… the number one birthdate was 1-1… four times more likely"

Simplifying evidentiary forms expands eligibility beyond legislative intent.

A four-page asylum form requiring proof of credible fear shrank to four leading questions, opening the aperture for mass parole.

Why: Administrative rule changes can override statutory limits without new legislation.

"the form used to be… a four-page form… turned into a form… four questions… super leading"

Every issued SSN becomes a key that unlocks multiple federal benefit programs.

Audit found 1.3 million of the 5.4 million EB recipients already on Medicaid, plus claims on unemployment, disability, and other means-tested programs.

Why: Single identifier creates systemic exposure across agencies that do not cross-check immigration status.

"every benefit program was being accessed by these people… 1.3 million of them are on Medicaid right now today"

Non-citizen SSNs can be used to register and vote in states without documentary proof of citizenship.

Cross-referencing voter rolls in a handful of states revealed thousands of EB SSNs registered, with many ballots cast.

Why: Federal crime that undermines democratic legitimacy; detection requires matching SSA and state voter files.

"we looked at the voter rolls and we found that thousands of them were registered to vote… many of those people had actually voted"

Loose entry policies create a money magnet that enriches cartels and endangers migrants.

$13-15 billion annually flowed to traffickers; migrants pay $20k each, often financed through indentured labor or sex trafficking.

Why: Policy incentives drive black-market demand and humanitarian crises.

"we gave 13 to 15 billion dollars a year to the human traffickers… they gotta pay that back… they're basically debt-should service"

Follow the data regardless of partisan origin.

Gracias, a former Clinton donor, insists the findings are empirical, not political; several critics retracted misleading charts when shown the EB-only dataset.

Why: Maintains credibility and enables cross-party consensus on corrective action.

"this is not political… the data speaks for itself… the first person that posted the chart actually deleted it"