And the millions of immigrants allowed into the country by the Biden administration could soon come home to roost.
The bill proposed by Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) would require states to obtain proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote. It would mandate that states remove non-citizens from existing voter rolls.
“Our bill is simple. You should be a citizen to vote,” Roy said on American Family Radio this week.
The bill passed the House with a 221-198 vote picking up five Democrat votes along the way. Notably, two Democrats to vote in favor were from Texas, Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Henry Cuellar.
It’s expected to face strong opposition in the Democrat-led Senate – if Majority Leader Chuck Schumer even allows it to the floor for a vote.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) says Schumer has balked at the legislation.
Passing the law means first voting on it.
Prior to the SAVE Act’s passage in the House, Tuberville, one of the original seven co-sponsors in the Senate, told the Rick and Bubba radio program that Schumer said the bill would never be put before senators.
“Mike Lee and I sat down three or four weeks ago and said, ‘We’ve got to do something.’ So, Chip Roy, myself and Mike Lee sat down, we came up with this bill … Schumer laughed at us, absolutely laughed at us, pretty much tore the bill up in our faces and said, ‘No, no, that’s not ever going to make it to the floor,’” Tuberville said.
If Schumer has a change of heart, and the SAVE Act does clear the bar in the Senate, it could face an even higher hurdle at the White House with an expected veto from President Joe Biden.
Down-ticket danger for Dems
Democrats’ strong opposition will put some of their members at risk in down-ballot elections, Rep. Greg Murphy (R-North Carolina) said on Washington Watch Wednesday.
“It puts folks in the ‘tween’ districts on the fence,” Murphy told show host Tony Perkins. “It will be very interesting to see how some folks who are in very tight races vote on this. I would imagine they would vote with Republicans on this issue because the last thing you want is a TV ad pointing out that some illegal immigrant was allowed to vote in your election.”
It is already illegal for non-citizens to vote in U.S. elections, a point Democrats are loudly pointing out, but almost nothing is done to verify proof of citizenship. Roy’s bill would change that.
“When illegals are brought into this country, and they’re urged to sign up for benefits, there’s a quick little tab you can mark that says you are a citizen. You don’t have to provide any verification for that, and you could vote,” Murphy said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson in late June released a 22-page report urging Congress to pass the SAVE Act in an effort to restore confidence in U.S. elections.
There is “irrefutable evidence that noncitizens have been illegally registering to vote and have illegally voted in U.S. elections,” Johnson’s report stated.
It cited a 2014 study of elections in 2008 and 2010 that concluded non-citizens had voted and had even likely determined the outcome in certain races.
Democrats, though, have described non-citizen voting as a minor problem and continue to obstruct any additional measures to prevent it.
Growing evidence of illegals voting
Gary Bauer, chairman of Campaign for Working Families, points out that even though there is growing evidence that illegal aliens are in fact registering to vote and voting, the Democrats remain in denial.
"The Democrats keep insisting that there is no cheating going on in American elections. They also attempt to legally harm – and, in some cases, jail – those who insist such cheating is going on," he tells AFN. "And third, every effort that is being made to reassure the American people by commonsense reforms, the White House and the Democrat Party are beating down and defeating."
Sandy Rios is director of governmental affairs at American Family Association.
"We have the same problems this election as we had last in terms of securing the vote," she observed recently on American Family Radio. "I do believe that Joe Biden is not the duly elected president, however controversial – sorry, that's the truth – and I think we may see more of that in this election.
"Certainly, some states have done nothing," she continued. "Nineteen states don't require people to be citizens of the country to vote right now. But this law, if it passes, would override that."
