EXCLUSIVE: Justice Dept. Agrees To Let DOGE Access Sensitive Immigration Case Data

Protestors — Protesters outside the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland during Kilmar Abrego García's hearing last month. (Caroline Gutman/For The Washington Post)

By Hannah Natanson, Jeremy Roebuck and Rachel Siegel

Representatives for the U.S. DOGE Service have received permission to access a highly sensitive Justice Department system that contains information including the addresses and case history for 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, any 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.”

A team of roughly a half-dozen DOGE “advisors” placed at the Justice Department won approval from senior officials at the agency on Friday to access the ECAS system, according to the documents reviewed by The Post.

Justice Department staff were instructed to begin preparing ECAS accounts for the DOGE team, the documents show, including former hedge fund staffer Adam Hoffman as well as Payton Rehling and Jon Koval, both of whom work at a private equity firm tied to Elon Musk. The team also includes Marko Elez, who resigned from the government in February after the Wall Street Journal linked him to a social media account that had made racist posts. He was rehired after Musk dismissed the significance of the posts.

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