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While US president Donald Trump was rolling out the September version of his , officials at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were quietly planning procedural changes .
This will go into the department’s database containing what it calls Alien Files. By alien, they mean the files of immigrants, current and prospective, not little green creatures from outer space.
From 18 October, all such dossiers and related records are to include “social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information, and search…



