The Department of Homeland Security is advancing its system to share citizenship verification data with state and local election officials, which has prompted “hair on fire” concerns from one legacy media outlet and a legal scholar. 

Additionally, one former Biden White House official has alleged the Trump administration is creating a database to include citizens “without telling us.”

The citizenship data has been integrated with Social Security Administration information to give states and localities easier access to the data. It’s a project that the Trump administration twice announced in May and June. The move comes as three states enacted laws requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and Republicans in Congress have pushed a similar idea at the federal level. 

President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14248, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” included a provision making the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system accessible to state and local governments. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced in late May that it would share the data with local election officials. 

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