The Trump administration provided citizenship data to Texas to ensure illegal immigrants are not on voter rolls.
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The Benny ShowOct 26, 2026
The Texas Secretary of State's own release credits the Trump administration with giving states free, direct access to the SAVE citizenship database, and Reuters reports that Texas complied voluntarily with federal voter-roll requests.
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… Oh, that's one of my top priorities. Look, this is a national security issue right here, and obviously, the Trump administration has been fantastic to work with. They've rapidly provided us the citizenship data that we needed, right, to make sure that illegal immigrants are not on our voter rolls. The Biden administration, for years, was blocking that. Why? Because, of course, the Democrats want illegal aliens voting. Of course, the Democrats do not believe in election integrity. …
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Supports. The Texas Secretary of State's release says the administration gave states free and direct access to the SAVE citizenship data for the first time, and that the state ran its 18 million-voter list through it.[1]
Supports. Reuters reports that at least 16 states, including Texas, voluntarily complied with the administration's requests for voter-roll data to check citizenship.[2]
Supports. CNN reports the administration expanded SAVE and made it possible for states to upload their entire voter lists en masse, which is the mechanism Texas used.[3]
Context. Texas's SAVE run flagged 2,724 potential noncitizens, but Democracy Docket reports that at least 578 of them were confirmed citizens, and a federal lawsuit alleges the state used unvetted data to remove voters.[6]
Context. The Supreme Court allowed the SAVE database to be used, while noting that states can still make individualized queries and that federal law bars broad purges shortly before an election.[4][5]
Sources
6 sources: 1 primary, 3 not rated, 1 tier 1, 1 tier 2
- 1Texas Completes Citizenship Verifications in the SAVE ...sos.texas.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 2Explainer-How Trump's noncitizen voter lists could affect the midtermsnewsobserver.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Why Trump's big claims of voter fraud have yielded so few ... - CNNedition.cnn.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Supreme Court allows Trump to use SAVE database ...bbc.com · tier 1 · cited for: context
- 5Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purgesnbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: context
- 6The Supreme Court is letting Trump use a faulty database for purges ...democracydocket.com · not rated · cited for: context
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