A federal judge on June 22 blocked the Trump administration’s expansion of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, ruling that federal agencies unlawfully combined social security and voter registration data to conduct citizenship checks for voter-roll reviews.
The ruling stems from a March 2025 executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to expand SAVE, a database originally designed to help federal, state, tribal, and local agencies verify citizenship or immigration status when administering government benefits and licenses.
Under the directive, DHS incorporated social security and voter registration information into the system to support large-scale voter eligibility reviews by states.
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