{"id":6890,"date":"2014-06-11T11:03:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6890"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:56:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:56:43","slug":"this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-june-11-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/06\/11\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-june-11-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"This Date in Obama\u2019s Administrative Amnesty: June 11, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"This<\/a>Two years ago, the Obama Justice Department announced that they would sue Florida, a state seeking to end illegal alien voting.<\/p>\n

Then-Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez wrote a letter to the Florida Secretary of State indicating that the Department of Justice would be suing Florida for violating the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA<\/a>). As promised, a lawsuit was filed<\/a> the next day in the Northern District of Florida challenging Florida\u2019s methods of removing illegal aliens and other ineligible voters from voter rolls.<\/p>\n

This lawsuit was one chess move in the escalation of a conflict between the Obama Administration and states who want to prevent illegal aliens from fraudulently voting. Since September 2011, Florida had sought access to a federal database called SAVE<\/a>, which stands for Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements. The SAVE database would allow Florida officials to check the immigration status of those registered to vote. Just five days before DOJ\u2019s lawsuit was filed, Florida had sued<\/a> the Justice Department for access to the SAVE database and attempted<\/a> to remove illegal aliens with the information it had. \u00a0Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) said<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019ve been asking for the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s database, SAVE, for months, and they haven\u2019t given it to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just a few weeks later, Judge Hinkle of the Northern District of Florida ruled<\/a> against the Department of Justice, denying the government\u2019s request for a preliminary injunction in the NVRA case. Despite the Obama Administration\u2019s efforts to prevent the removal of illegal aliens from voter rolls, there was a victory<\/a> for the Sunshine State.