DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver's License Data for Citizenship Checks

Tuesday, November 04, 2025

DHS intends to add state driver's license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for checking citizenship.

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... DHS intends to add state driver's license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for checking citizenship. Earlier this year, DHS added millions of Americans' Social Security data to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system, ...

Pardon me if I ask again ...

What is Mr Musk doing with the apparent many, oh so many, terabytes of data that his team bypassed security, accessed and, apparently, copied from the US computer systems?

And, is that wireless link into Federal networks still active?

(asking for a friend)

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-04 03:48 AM | Reply

... Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX, is now accessible across the White House campus. It is the latest installation of the Wi-Fi network across the government since Mr. Musk joined the Trump administration as an unpaid adviser.

It was not immediately clear when the White House complex was fitted with Starlink after President Trump took office for a second term.

Starlink terminals, rectangular panels that receive internet signals beamed from SpaceX satellites in low-Earth orbit, can be placed on physical structures. But instead of being physically placed at the White House, the Starlink system is now said to be routed through a White House data center, with existing fiber cables, miles from the complex. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-04 04:01 AM | Reply

#1 and #2:

With oligarch Peter Thiel's Palantir technologies and Felon Musk's Starlink system, I imagine the malevolent Trumpf junta is constructing a dystopian network-linked hyper police state.

Protecting the oligarchs and their ill-gained pelf while stamping out dissent, terrorizing the population, and pauperizing the masses are the Republican Party goals.

Technology will make controlling us easier.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-04 04:50 AM | Reply

"Small government" Republicans sure sold their sorry a$$e$ for cheap.

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-11-04 05:43 AM | Reply

The GOP is the champions of doing everything they accuse democrats of doing when they are not in power.

If they did not have hypocrisy, they'd stand for nothing at all.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-11-04 09:06 AM | Reply

The sad part is that if a non-Republican administration (Democrat) ever wins the White House and Congress, they will not relinquish the new powers and capabilities of DHS and ICE nor will they abolish the AUMF.

Without the AUMF, Barack Obama's Seal Team Six would not have been able to kill Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on 2 May 2011.

Links on DHS and ICE deportations under non-Republican leadership:

www.migrationpolicy.org

factually.co

quixote.org

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-04 02:18 PM | Reply

We can thank CA and their lax CDL processing for giving DHS this excuse.

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-04 09:27 PM | Reply

Technology will make controlling us easier.
#3 | POSTED BY C0RI0LANUS

And more difficult.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-11-04 09:28 PM | Reply

You can always move to Texas.

Move next door to Turds.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-11-04 09:59 PM | Reply