Will Illegal Aliens Vote in the 2024 Presidential Election?

The U.S. House of Representatives, currently under Republican control, voted 221-198 today for a bill that requires proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections. The bill is known as the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or SAVE Act, and was sponsored by Representative Chip Roy (R-Texas). 

According to Fred Lucas at The Daily Signal, the bill would “amend the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, known as the ‘motor voter law,’ to require that states obtain documentary proof of U.S. citizenship from someone before he or she may register to vote.” It would also “require states to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.” 

The interesting part of the vote is that 198 Democrats voted against protecting the right to vote for Americans. We should be grateful for the five Democrats who voted for the legislation. President Joe Biden also opposes the legislation, and the chances of a companion bill in the Senate sponsored by Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) passing are slim to none at all.

“I kind of dare them to vote no on a bill supported by 81% to 87% of the American people,” Roy said Wednesday on the House floor, referring to Democrats. “I dare them to vote no on a bill that says only American citizens should vote in American elections. I dare them to go ahead and follow a president who has put out a policy against a bill, the purpose of which is to guarantee citizens are the ones who get to vote in American elections.”

Roy’s dare did not stop 198 Democrats from voting against a bill that would protect the vote of American citizens. The vote put the Democrats on record, and Americans should show at the ballot box how they feel about such a vote.

The bill passed in the House would do some other things. It would “empower U.S. citizens to bring civil suits against election officials who don’t uphold proof-of-citizenship requirements for federal elections.” It would also allow “for integrating existing databases at the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to expedite the requirement for states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls.”

It is “already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections,” but this bill would put a mechanism into place that would “ensure that only those registering or voting are actually citizens,” according to Speaker of the House Johnson (R-La.) Johnson added some other information that is interesting.

Johnson, R-La., noted that Virginia last year removed 1,500 registrants from the voter rolls who were noncitizens, and 22% had cast ballots. The states of Massachusetts and Ohio removed noncitizens from voter rolls in recent years. Georgia found that 1,600 noncitizens attempted to vote.

“American citizens will be protected and in no way harmed by this bill,” Johnson said Wednesday on the House floor. “There is not a conceivable argument that the Democrats can make to oppose the commonsense measures that we’re putting before them today. Nothing changes the voter registration process in the states.”

“The only people who will face hurdles here are those who are trying to break our federal laws,” the House speaker said. “And that’s why it’s patently absurd that the White House issued a veto threat. They issued a veto threat.”

Other interesting information provided by Lucas is that Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes resigned in 2009 “after the state admitted to registering illegal immigrants for several years.”

More than 10 million illegal immigrants and millions more paroled aliens have entered the country since Biden took office in January 2021. The Biden administration has released at least 4.6 million illegal aliens into the United States in addition to 1.8 million known “gotaways,” according to Roy’s office.

One has to wonder why Democrats do not want to protect the right to vote for American citizens. Are they encouraging illegal aliens to vote in American elections? This sounds like election interfering to me – an illegal act.