"The Trump administration has since poured billions of dollars into immigration enforcement, and in March, Trump issued an executive order requiring the Department of Homeland Security to ensure that states have "access to appropriate systems for verifying the citizenship or immigration status of individuals registering to vote or who are already registered." In May, DHS began encouraging states to check their voter rolls against immigration data with the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, run by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). SAVE now has access to data from across the federal government, not just on immigrants but on citizens as well."
"Experts have warned that using disparate sources of data-all collected for different purposes-could lead to errors, including identifying US citizens as noncitizens. According to the plaintiffs in a new legal complaint, it appears that it's already happening. The complaint, filed against DHS and the Social Security Administration (SSA) in the Washington, DC, District Court by the League of Women Voters and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), alleges that the new SAVE expansion has led to American citizens being kicked off state voter rolls and that the creation of what amounts to a national citizenship data bank is unconstitutional."
President Donald Trump prioritized immigration and his administration increased enforcement funding. An executive order directed DHS to provide states access to systems verifying citizenship or immigration status. DHS encouraged states to use the USCIS Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program to check voter rolls. SAVE now draws on federal data across agencies and includes information on citizens. Experts warned that combining disparate administrative data risks errors and false noncitizen identifications. The League of Women Voters and EPIC sued DHS and the SSA, alleging SAVE-driven wrongful voter purges and an unconstitutional national citizenship data bank. SAVE was created in 1986.
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