Texas Attorney General Demands Biden Admin Help Verify Citizenship Status Of Nearly Half A Million Registered Voters

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday demanded the Biden-Harris administration help his office confirm the citizenship status of nearly half a million registered voters in Texas.

Paxton asked U.S. Citizenship and 🛂Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur Jaddou to hand over data on roughly 454,300 Texas registered voters who have never had their citizenship verified, according to a letter submitted by Paxton’s office. The demand, Paxton says, is part of his effort to ensure compliance with federal and state election laws against non-citizen participation in elections.

“Although federal and state law prohibits non-citizens from voting, federal law paradoxically creates opportunities for non-citizens to illegally register to vote while prohibiting States from requiring voters to have proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections — a common sense measure to identify illegal registration,” Paxton wrote to Jaddou. “Under any circumstances, this federal prohibition against citizenship verification makes little sense, but it is especially troubling given the current scale of the illegal 🛂Immigration crisis.”

“For these reasons, Texans are increasingly concerned about the possibility of non-citizen voting, and I have a responsibility to uphold the integrity of our elections,” the Republican attorney general continued.

As part of Paxton’s investigation into the extent to which non-citizens have unlawfully registered to vote or have already voted in Texas, the attorney general obtained the list of roughly 454,300 registered voters from the Texas Secretary of State’s office who purportedly have not had their citizenship verified.