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Mike Lee: “The SAVE system verifies citizenship and highlights…”

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

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 18th

Published | Video Starts at 55:36

They want to render vestigial our criminal prohibitions against not a citizen voting, just like they want to render vestigial our immigration laws. In any event, this is a terribly misleading correlation. The SAVE system verifies citizenship and highlights ineligible voters. Citizenship verification happens across government. It does happen. It will continue to happen. It must happen. That's one of the fundamental duties of any government, is to know and have access to information to ascertain whether somebody is a citizen. (55:36–55:42)

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Asserts that the SAVE system is used to verify citizenship and identify ineligible voters.

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