The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system
The tool, which is being rolled out in phases, is designed to be used by state and local election officials to give them an easier way to ensure only citizens are voting. But it was developed rapidly without a public process, and some of those officials are already worrying about what else it could be used for.
DHS, in partnership with the White House's Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) team, has recently rolled out a series of upgrades to a network of federal databases to allow state and county election officials to quickly check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists — both U.S.-born and naturalized citizens — using data from the Social Security Administration as well as immigration databases.
Such integration has never existed before, and experts call it a sea change that inches the U.S. closer to having a roster of citizens — something the country has never embraced. A centralized national database of Americans' personal information has long been considered a third rail — especially to privacy advocates as well as political conservatives, who have traditionally opposed mass data consolidation by the federal government.
This new citizenship check capability comes from a massive expansion of a tool voting officials only used sparingly in the past. The tool, known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, is a system of DHS databases that state and federal agencies have queried since the 1980s to check the immigration status of noncitizens living in the U.S. legally. Agencies can then decide if the applicants are eligible for different government benefits.
Legal experts told NPR they were alarmed that a development of this magnitude was already underway without a transparent and public process. Many other questions about the new system remain, including which states plan to use it and how, what sort of data security measures are being taken and how trustworthy the data the tool provides will be.
Future plans also include integrating state DMV data, according to the same sources, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is expected to reach out to every state's chief election official soon encouraging them to run their rolls through the system.
"Such centralization of data poses a threat to individual freedoms and privacy," she wrote. "Surrendering our data to unchecked power isn't just a technical risk — it's a moral failure." [read full article at link - it is lengthy]
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Above closely related to below post 5-mos back on the announcing of MIGA-Trump Tariffs on Canada and Mexico - pointing out that the immigration round-up was a ruse to 'Document all the Undocumented' in prepartation for the MIGA-planned transition to their would-be Zionist-NWO A21 'regional-government' model -- which for this particular global-region includes Canada Mexico and USA i.e. Canamerexico aka. It was noted (see 2-2-25 below) that not only would the Undocumenteds need to be Databanked, but that the already 'Documented Citizens' of the 'region' would need their information Databanked also - and lo and behold the mechanism to do exactly that is now being put in place in the USA. With little to no notification to the general public. A system that appears designed to ultimately enable consolidating virtually all information of every individual, from virtually every source. Very clearly that is the only goal - a single centralized All-Comprehensive Database -- think financial, medical (got a vax-card), personal, social media, whatever > global citizen; see below:
The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system
The tool, which is being rolled out in phases, is designed to be used by state and local election officials to give them an easier way to ensure only citizens are voting. But it was developed rapidly without a public process, and some of those officials are already worrying about what else it could be used for.
DHS, in partnership with the White House's Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) team, has recently rolled out a series of upgrades to a network of federal databases to allow state and county election officials to quickly check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists — both U.S.-born and naturalized citizens — using data from the Social Security Administration as well as immigration databases.
Such integration has never existed before, and experts call it a sea change that inches the U.S. closer to having a roster of citizens — something the country has never embraced. A centralized national database of Americans' personal information has long been considered a third rail — especially to privacy advocates as well as political conservatives, who have traditionally opposed mass data consolidation by the federal government.
This new citizenship check capability comes from a massive expansion of a tool voting officials only used sparingly in the past. The tool, known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, is a system of DHS databases that state and federal agencies have queried since the 1980s to check the immigration status of noncitizens living in the U.S. legally. Agencies can then decide if the applicants are eligible for different government benefits.
Legal experts told NPR they were alarmed that a development of this magnitude was already underway without a transparent and public process. Many other questions about the new system remain, including which states plan to use it and how, what sort of data security measures are being taken and how trustworthy the data the tool provides will be.
Future plans also include integrating state DMV data, according to the same sources, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is expected to reach out to every state's chief election official soon encouraging them to run their rolls through the system.
"Such centralization of data poses a threat to individual freedoms and privacy," she wrote. "Surrendering our data to unchecked power isn't just a technical risk — it's a moral failure." [read full article at link - it is lengthy]
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Above closely related to below post 5-mos back on the announcing of MIGA-Trump Tariffs on Canada and Mexico - pointing out that the immigration round-up was a ruse to 'Document all the Undocumented' in prepartation for the MIGA-planned transition to their would-be Zionist-NWO A21 'regional-government' model -- which for this particular global-region includes Canada Mexico and USA i.e. Canamerexico aka. It was noted (see 2-2-25 below) that not only would the Undocumenteds need to be Databanked, but that the already 'Documented Citizens' of the 'region' would need their information Databanked also - and lo and behold the mechanism to do exactly that is now being put in place in the USA. With little to no notification to the general public. A system that appears designed to ultimately enable consolidating virtually all information of every individual, from virtually every source. Very clearly that is the only goal - a single centralized All-Comprehensive Database -- think financial, medical (got a vax-card), personal, social media, whatever > global citizen; see below:
