Garrison Davis

As the voting restriction bill dubbed the Save America Act continues to stall in Congress, Trump has attempted to take matters into his own hands by signing a new executive order, quote, ensuring citizenship verification and integrity in federal elections.

This order directs DHS, USCIS, and the Social Security Administration to create a, quote, state citizenship list of individuals confirmed to be United States citizens who will be above the age of 18 at the time of an upcoming federal election and who maintain a residence in the subject state, unquote.

And this citizenship list will then be used to compare to state voter rolls.

The list will be derived from, quote, federal citizenship and naturalization records, Social Security Administration records, the DHS systematic alien verification for entitlements data, and other relevant federal databases, unquote.

James, do you want to talk about this idea of having like a list of citizens?

Because this is, I think, something we've mentioned before, how there to this point hasn't really been like a single list of U.S.

citizens.

Yeah, because you can obtain United States citizenship through a number of means, right?

Yeah.

So these would exist in different agencies.

And generally there has been like

a hostility, a well-founded hostility to this kind of overarching government in-out list, right?

Not least because they will screw it up monumentally.

And that could have devastating consequences that affect not just your ability to vote, but as we have seen through the past year of ICE enforcement, your ability to remain in the United States.

Yeah.

And just every part of everyday life, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Not least to add that one of the ways you can obtain United States citizenship is through being an enrolled tribal citizen.

I don't know if they're consulting tribal citizenship roles.