发布时间：2026年3月11日，美国东部时间下午2:05 / 作者：普莉希拉·阿尔瓦雷斯
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据三位熟悉相关谈判的消息人士透露，美国国土安全部（DHS）正寻求获取大量联邦信息，这些信息原本用于支持子女抚养费的征收，但可能被用于移民执法目的。消息人士称此举前所未有。
这些数据——包括支付子女抚养费人员的信息以及范围更广的人群的就业信息——存储在卫生与公众服务部（HHS），并用于征收子女抚养费。这一请求引发了现任和前任HHS官员的担忧，他们质疑国土安全部是否会利用历史上受法律限制的信息，以支持政府的移民打击行动，进而破坏这一关键项目的信任基础。
这是特朗普政府一系列尝试的最新行动，试图利用各联邦机构存储的数据，以查找居住在美国的无证移民。
例如，去年美国国税局（IRS）开始与移民管理当局共享敏感的纳税人数据，以协助搜寻无证移民。一名联邦法官于去年年底阻止了这种信息共享，裁定此举违反了纳税人隐私法，但政府正在上诉。
消息人士告诉美国有线电视新闻网（CNN），国土安全部已请求访问联邦父母定位服务系统（Federal Parent Locator Service）——这是HHS的一组数据库，包含数百万美国人的敏感信息，原本用于征收子女抚养费。其中一个数据库是“全国新雇员工目录”（National Directory of New Hires），该目录收录了所有美国工人的就业详情，即使这些人与子女抚养费无关，他们的信息最终也会被删除。
“对于‘全国新雇员工目录’，它是一个涵盖全美所有工人的数据库，无论这些人与子女抚养费是否有关联，”2009年至2016年担任HHS子女抚养费执行局局长的维基·图雷茨基（Vicki Turetsky）表示，“如果国土安全部能够获取该数据，那么所有美国工人的信息都将被暴露。”
尽管数据中不包含移民身份信息，但可以通过是否拥有社会安全号码来推断。无证移民可以获得子女抚养费，因为这不是公共福利，也不由纳税人支付。
白宫未回应CNN的置评请求，而是将问题转交给了国土安全部和卫生与公众服务部。《ProPublica》此前曾报道过国土安全部的这一请求。
多位消息人士告诉CNN，国土安全部的请求可能违反联邦法律，因为联邦法律明确规定了此类信息的处理方式及授权使用范围。根据前任HHS官员的说法，国土安全部并非授权使用者，而移民执法也不属于授权用途。
目前尚不清楚国土安全部能否成功访问这些数据库。
与此同时，IRS与ICE的合作从一开始就存在问题。ICE去年请求获取近130万名疑似无证移民的地址信息，但仅从IRS获取了约4.7万名纳税人的数据。上个月，美国国税局在法庭上承认，他们犯了一个错误，不应提交约2000名纳税人的数据。
去年，民主党参议员罗恩·怀登（Ron Wyden）和谢尔登·怀特豪斯（Sheldon Whitehouse）也对埃隆·马斯克领导的政府效率部（Department of Government Efficiency）试图访问全国子女抚养费数据库表示担忧，指出该数据库包含美国人的身份信息。目前尚不清楚DOGE是否最终获取了这些数据。
美国有线电视新闻网的马歇尔·科恩（Marshall Cohen）对此报道亦有贡献。
Homeland Security pushes for access to restricted federal database on child support, employment information for millions
PUBLISHED Mar 11, 2026, 2:05 PM ET / By Priscilla Alvarez
A Department of Homeland Security flag is seen outside the ICE headquarters in Washington, DC, on August 19, 2025.
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The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to gain access to a trove of federal information that is intended to support the collection of child support payments but could potentially be used for immigration enforcement purposes, according to three sources familiar with the talks who describe the move as unprecedented.
The data — which includes both information on people who pay child support and employment information for a much wider universe of people — is stored within the Health and Human Services Department and is used to collect child support payments. The request has prompted concerns among current and former HHS officials over whether Homeland Security would use legally restricted information that has historically been legally restricted for the administration’s immigration crackdown — and, in turn, sow distrust in a critical program.
It’s only the latest in a series of attempts by the Trump administration to use data stored in various federal agencies to potentially find undocumented immigrants residing in the United States.
Last year, for example, the Internal Revenue Service began sharing sensitive taxpayer data with immigration authorities to assist the search for undocumented immigrants. A federal judge blocked that information sharing late last year, ruling that it violated taxpayer privacy laws, but the administration is appealing.
Sources told CNN that DHS has requested access to the Federal Parent Locator Service, which is a set of databases at HHS that includes sensitive information on millions of Americans for the purpose of child support payment collection. One of those databases is the National Directory of New Hires, which contains employment details even for people with no nexus to child support though their information is eventually wiped.
“For the (National Directory of New Hires), it’s a general population database of all US workers in the country whether or not they have anything to do with child support,” said Vicki Turetsky, who served as commissioner of HHS’ child support enforcement from 2009 to 2016. “All American workers would have their data exposed through the NDNH should DHS get ahold of it.”
While immigration status is not included in the data collection, it could be inferred by who does or doesn’t have a social security number. Undocumented immigrants can receive child support because it’s not a public benefit, nor paid by the taxpayer.
The White House referred CNN to DHS and HHS, which have not responded to requests for comment. ProPublica earlier reported on the request by DHS.
Multiple sources told CNN that the DHS request would likely be in violation of federal law, which explicitly states how the information is handled and who is authorized to do so. DHS is not an authorized user and immigration enforcement is not an authorized use, according to former HHS officials.
It’s unclear whether DHS will succeed in accessing the databases.
The IRS-ICE collaboration, meanwhile, was troubled from the start. ICE requested address information last year for nearly 1.3 million suspected undocumented immigrants but only got data from the IRS for about 47,000 taxpayers. And the IRS acknowledged in court last month that it made a mistake and shouldn’t have turned over data for approximately 2,000 of those taxpayers.
Last year, Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden and Sheldon Whitehouse also raised alarm over Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency attempting to access the national child support database, noting that it contains identifying information of Americans. It’s unclear whether DOGE ultimately accessed the data.
CNN’s Marshall Cohen contributed to this report.
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