Ahead of the election, Texas Republicans are desperate to purge their voter rolls of noncitizens, and require the assistance of the Biden-Harris administration to do so. But they say the administration has been uncooperative so far in their efforts, refusing to provide the necessary data.
The Daily Caller reports:
Roy and Weber, along with 12 GOP colleagues, asked U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur Jaddou to comply with Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson’s request for assistance verifying non-citizens are not being registered to vote, according to the letter obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The request came after Republican Gov. Greg Abbot of Texas purged 6,500 potential noncitizens from voter rolls in August, to which lawmakers claim Jaddou has a “moral imperative to assist the state” in clarifying registration data.
The deadline for the request was originally October 2, but she still hasn’t received a reply from the federal government a full week after the deadline.
The Daily Caller continues:
The current administration has “consistently dismissed” concerns about non-citizens voting, claiming that the “current laws to prevent noncitizen voting are working,” according to the letter. At the same time, the administration is “preventing” states like Texas from properly enforcing those laws by withholding the citizenship data the state requested.
Conservatives have long sounded the alarm on election integrity and warned of the possibility of noncitizen participation in American elections, dismissing it as “impossible” because of the law, while consistently opposing voter ID laws, arguing that the law as written adequately prohibits noncitizens from voting, despite the law as written failing to adequately deter multitudes of illegal aliens from residing in the United States.
In some cases, it seems as though Democratic administrations have actively tried to enable noncitizen voting after filing lawsuits against states for purging their voter rolls.
The letter also points to a recent lawsuit from the Biden-Harris administration against Alabama’s removal of non-citizens from their voter rolls. The state of Florida was also forced to sue the Department of Homeland Security in 2012 in order to gain access to information that would help verify the citizenship of voters.
“They’re turning a blind eye to noncitizens influencing our elections, and they even killed the SAVE (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility) Act, which would have barred noncitizens from voting,” Weber told the DCNF. “Federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting, so why don’t they hand over the voter rolls Texas needs to keep our elections clean? My Texas Republican colleagues and I demand they release the information without delay.”
Speaker Mike Johnson attached the SAVE Act to his original funding bill in September, which eventually failed in the House due to Republican defectors who cited fiscal concerns. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called the continuing resolution with the attached SAVE Act “unserious and unacceptable,” and President Joe Biden confirmed that he would veto the bill if it made its way to the White House.
“Texas has a duty to prevent noncitizens from voting,” Roy told the DCNF. “The Biden-Harris administration is trying to prevent that for the same reason they fought the SAVE Act (H.R. 8281): they want noncitizens — especially illegal aliens — to vote.”
Texas, as a sovereign state, according to “state’s rights” under the Constitution, to uphold the Constitution to perform and act according to the “rule of law,” and the hell with politics, and let the Supreme Court intervene in such cases immediantly!