Trump is building a searchable national database to track US citizens

Calling it a necessity for making sure that only “American citizens” vote in future elections, Donald Trump is building a searchable national citizenship database, the first system of its kind in the country, with few guardrails in place for controlling how it will be used.

It’s time to wake up, America! Liberty is about to take another blow from the dictator wannabe occupying the White House once his searchable national database to track citizens is up and running (via Gizmodo.com):

According to a report from NPR, the Trump administration is in the process of building a searchable national citizenship data system, the first of its kind in the country, with few guardrails in place for how it is used.

The database is a collaborative effort between the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE) and will be maintained by the DHS’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service. The agencies have been working to tie together federal databases to create a system that state and county election officials can use to look up the citizenship status of anyone on their voter lists.

The database, which will reportedly contain information about both U.S.-born and naturalized citizens, will use data pulled from the Social Security Administration and immigration databases. Remember that whole showdown DOGE had over its effort to suck up SSA data? That’s feeling mighty relevant right about now. (Emphasis mine)

DOGE was allegedly created to massively cut the cost of government and expose corruption and abuse, but as I wrote recently, the real reason for its creation was to help Trump build a technocratic dictatorship used to expand government’s domestic surveillance capabilities and build a “master database” containing the personal data on nearly every American citizen held by government agencies like the IRS, the Social Security Administration, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

One of the recipients of this massive collection of personal data is Palantir, a company owned by technocrat Peter Thiel, the man personally chosen by Trump to build his government surveillance system (via NewsMax.com):

The New York Times reported that Palantir, the AI-focused software and military contractor, has expanded its “work across the federal government in recent months” after it had been tapped by President Donald Trump to create “detailed portraits” or a digital ID on Americans “which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies,” such as from the IRS, the Department of Homeland Security, the Health and Human Services Department, the Social Security Administration and the Department of Education.

Palantir employees told The Times that the company’s engineers had been “quietly” discussing creating a digital ID for Americans and that they had grown worried about placing such sensitive data in one place. Anonymous government officials also told The Times that Palantir’s pick to create a program compiling data on Americans “was driven by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.” (Emphasis mine)

On the subject of digital IDs, Trump’s AI Stargate Project is considered the cornerstone of his “Golden Age of America” and will lead to greater government control and eventually, the creation and mandating of digital IDs.

The creation of Digital IDs also received a big boost with the REAL ID Act. REAL IDs established federal standards for driver’s licenses while simultaneously giving the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) authority to mandate, as it sees fit, the inclusion of additional items to be put in the government database, such as “biometric” identifiers like retina scans, fingerprints, and DNA.

There are many shocking things about the development of Trump’s searchable national database, not the least of which is the fact that it is being developed behind closed doors, much like how he is using immigration and border control to expand government’s mass surveillance capabilities.

How might this searchable national database be used? Will its use be restricted only to election verification? Or could it be used for other nefarious purposes? We need look no further than Trump’s recent comments following his tour of Ron DeSantis’ new federal migrant mass-detention site in the Florida Everglades — lovingly referred to by the Florida Governor as his very own “Alligator Alcatraz” — where he suggested he would use the facility not only for deporting “illegal” immigrants, but also for deportation of U.S. citizens who commit crimes (via AlterNet.org):

“I’d like to say it, you know, it’s a little controversial, but I couldn’t care less,” the President began. “We have a lot of bad criminals that came into the, into this country, and they came in stupidly—it was an unforced error, it was an incompetent president that allowed it to happen. It was an autopen, maybe, that allowed it to happen.”

“And it did happen,” he continued, “but we also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time, people that whacked people over the head with a baseball bat from behind when they’re not looking and killed them. People that knife you when you’re walking down the street. They’re not new to our country. They’re old to our country. Many of them are born in our country.”

“I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too, you want to know the truth,” Trump declared. (Emphasis mine)

Trump’s comments about deporting people “born in our country” is clearly directed at US citizens, or “homegrowns” as he called them back in April (via WBGH.org):

President Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador. Speaking Monday, minutes before a press briefing alongside El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, Trump could be heard embracing the concept.

“The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You’ve got to build about five more places,” Trump said to Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens. (Emphasis mine)

No one will be safe from the prying eyes of Trump’s technocratic dictatorship.

From the first day of his second term in office, Donald Trump has been using his make-believe concern about immigration and border security to destroy our God-given, constitutionally protected liberty and build a police state not seen since the days of WWII Nazi Germany. And now, using his make-believe concern about free and fair elections, Trump is building a searchable national database to track US citizens to be used by that same police state.

But don’t worry. It’s not like he’s a fascist or anything.

 

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