"The Department of Homeland Security says it intends to add state driver's license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for checking citizenship. The plan, outlined in a public notice posted Thursday, is the latest step in an unprecedented Trump administration initiative to pool confidential data from varied sources that it claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls, tighten immigration enforcement and expose public benefit fraud."
"Earlier this year, DHS added millions of Americans' Social Security data to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system, allowing officials to use the tool to conduct bulk searches of voter rolls for the first time. According to the document filed Thursday, SAVE also recently expanded to include passport and visa information. Incorporating driver's license information would allow election officials whose rolls don't include voters' Social Security numbers to conduct bulk searches by driver's license number."
DHS intends to add state driver's license information to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system to broaden citizenship verification capabilities. The expansion is part of an administration initiative to pool confidential records from multiple sources to identify noncitizens on voter rolls, increase immigration enforcement and detect public benefit fraud. DHS reportedly approached Texas about a pilot to add driver license data. Earlier additions to SAVE included millions of Americans' Social Security records and passport and visa information. Adding driver's license data would enable bulk searches by license number where voter rolls lack Social Security numbers and link key identifiers.
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