The US Supreme Court restored on Friday an expanded immigration database that President Donald Trump’s administration said aims to combat voting by noncitizens, but critics contend could disenfranchise eligible voters.
It will only disenfranchise noncitizens. Hoever, that is the reason Democrats opened the borders. They want noncitizens to vote.
The justices granted the Justice Department’s request to block a judge’s order that had stopped checks of registered voters’ citizenship status against federal records.
The three leftist Justices dissented.
The administration’s data-sharing arrangement is one in a series of actions boosting the federal government’s involvement in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Last year, the Department of Homeland Security redesigned a federal database known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, used to verify a person’s citizenship and immigration status. The revamp allowed users to search many records at a time and to conduct searches using individuals’ Social Security numbers.
Since then, several Republican-led states have compared their voter lists to the database, and some voters flagged as potential noncitizens have had their registrations canceled.