… cooperative verification tools such as data sharing agreement or memoranda of understanding with federal agencies to confirm citizenship status were legally permissible. That's what Utah has done. It's also what Nearly every Republican majority state in the whole country [has pursued data sharing arrangements and verification partnerships with federal agencies]. has done. And yet the Democrat states, the blue states, refuse defiantly. That should tell us something. And this is where the policy disagreement that's at the heart of this discussion becomes even clearer. (30:02–30:07)
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Asserts that most Republican-majority states have adopted federal verification tools.
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