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Mike Lee: “The SAVE database, an already existing database designed to…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 20th

Published | Video Starts at 11:32

… state legislatures that are refusing to cooperate, to coordinate to share data with the Department of Homeland Security and the entities within the Department of Homeland Security responsible for maintaining The SAVE database, an already existing database designed to help identify issues like this, like non citizens who may have crept into voter registration files and get rid of them. But with all those blue states refusing to cooperate to coordinate, to enter into memoranda of understanding pertaining to the sharing of information and data, It's a really vexing problem because it raises all kinds of concerns. (11:32–11:48)

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Asserts that the SAVE database exists to identify non-citizens in voter registration files.

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