Former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson are making headlines with their plan to push a bill to ban non-citizens from voting, despite it already being illegal. The duo is set to make an appearance at Mar-a-Lago to discuss this controversial topic.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is scheduled to hold a press conference at the former president’s residence, continuing the longstanding Republican attack on Democrats. However, research shows that non-citizen voting is not a widespread issue in the United States. A study by the Brennan Center found that only 0.0001% of voters across 42 jurisdictions were suspected to be non-citizens who managed to vote in the 2016 election.
Despite the lack of evidence supporting widespread non-citizen voting, Donald Trump has persistently claimed election fraud and has suggested that migrants are being “signed up” to vote in the United States. Trump’s claims have been met with skepticism, as non-citizens are already prohibited from voting in federal elections under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996.
The proposed bill comes at a time when border security is a key focus in the political landscape, with both Trump and President Joe Biden targeting each other over their border policies. President Biden has criticized Trump and his Republican allies for blocking a bipartisan compromise bill earlier this year that would have brought significant changes to the US immigration system.
As the debate over non-citizen voting continues, it remains to be seen how this issue will impact the upcoming elections and the broader political discourse in the United States.