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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The Department of Homeland Security says it has now checked the citizenship status of more than 33 million registered voters through an upgraded verification tool. NPR's Jude Joffe block reports election officials have used this citizenship check even though questions persist about the security and the accuracy of the system. Known as save, SAVE is a federal.
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Data system that has long been used to verify immigration status. In recent months, U.S. citizenship and Immigration Services rapidly made several changes, including linking SAVE to Social Security Administration data. Now, the agency says SAVE can verify the citizenship of most US Born citizens, too. Some Republican led states are running their voter rolls through save, amounting to almost a sixth of all registered voters so far. But some election officials from both parties are hesitating or refusing to use the tool, citing outstanding questions, including how the federal government can use the voter data that states upload. Jude Joffe Block, NPR News.
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Illinois Governor J.B. pritzker is in a standoff with President Trump, who has repeatedly signaled he might send National Guard troops to Chicago. On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced it had launched an immigration enforcement operation, part of the administration's campaign targeting jurisdictions it believes are shielding unauthorized migrants in violation of federal immigration law. Governor Pritzker reacted to the influx of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago.
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They're arresting people outside of courthouses, people who are going there, in fact, to seek legal status if they don't have it already or to advance their legal status or they're here permanently but they'd like to become a US Citizen, literally stopping people who are trying to follow the legal system to do the right thing.
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Governor Pritzker, speaking with NPR's Morning Edition, a new study finds that people in the United States consume more sugar as the temperature rises. NPR's Alejandra Borunda explains.
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The study tracked Americans grocery purchases over a few years and compared those to temperature. When it got hotter, people bought a lot more sugary drinks like sodas, energy drinks, Gatorade and juices. On average, people added about an eighth of a teaspoon of sugar per degree Celsius hotter. That sounds like a small number, but it adds up, according to Duo Chan. He's a climate scientist at the University of Southampton and an author of the study.