( September 28, 2026, 10:56 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a split decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 25 granted an emergency application filed by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration (SSA) to stay, pending appeal, a lower court’s vacatur of 2025 modifications to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, finding that the government was likely to succeed on its argument that the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) authorized the challenged information sharing, which incorporated SSA records, permitted searches using full or partial Social Security numbers and bulk queries and expanded citizenship verification measures....