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South Carolina, Iowa sharing license data with Trump administration for citizenship check
https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/nation-world/states-share-license-data-for-citizenship-efforts/507-aca935aa-41bd-4719-80ee-1ae03110859aSouth Dakota is also joining along with the two states Nebraska, which had been the lone state that agreed to sign the deal with the Census Bureau to share info.
Iowa, South Carolina and South Dakota have now joined Nebraska in agreeing to share state driver's license information with the U.S. Census Bureau to help the Trump administration to determine the citizenship status of every U.S. resident.
Until recently, Nebraska had been the sole state to sign an agreement with the Census Bureau to share the information. President Donald Trump ordered the Census Bureau last year to gather citizenship data from the administrative records of federal and state agencies after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked his administration's effort to place a citizenship question on the 2020 census questionnaire.
The overwhelming majority of states have refused to share information about driver's licenses and ID cards. The governors of the four cooperating states are Republicans. Their cooperation was first reported by NPR.
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