States Act to Protect Immigration Data from White House

Government Technology: Following President Donald Trump’s highly controversial executive order on immigration, one thing was immediately clear to state leaders: The administration would need data from the states to create a registry of Muslims and carry out mass deportation.

Washington was the first state to act. Gov. Jay Inslee worked with his staff to find which agencies the federal government could use as data sources, focusing on the Washington Department of Licensing (known as the Department of Motor Vehicles in most states) and the Washington Department of Social and Health Services as the two primary agencies with relevant data.

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