The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system
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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.

NPR is the first news organization to report the details of the new system.

For decades, voting officials have noted that there was no national citizenship list to compare their state lists to, so to verify citizenship for their voters, they either needed to ask people to provide a birth certificate or a passport — something that could disenfranchise millions — or use a complex patchwork of disparate data sources.

  • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
    12·
    12 hours ago

    So you tried but couldn’t find them, because you’re wrong. Gotcha.

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      This took 30 seconds to find

      Visa overstays have outnumbered people who enter the country illegally at the Southern border every year since 2007, according to a report by the Center for Migration Studies. The report’s authors estimate that the number of total visa overstays was 600,000 more than the total number of border crossers and that in 2014, visa overstays accounted for two-thirds of all new undocumented immigrants.

      https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/683662691/where-does-illegal-immigration-mostly-occur-heres-what-the-data-tell-us

      This article has the most recent data I could find but if you look at the sources you can probably find better info. You’re welcome to prove me wrong.

      • FreedomAdvocateEnglish
        11·
        7 hours ago

        2017, so before Biden opened the borders for all. Not really relevant in 2025.