Why did no president take this simple step before?
Could it be that the Democrats want illegal aliens to vote, and the Bush wing of the Fake Republican Party agrees, or at least doesn't want to upset their liberal friends and mistresses by disagreeing?
Answer: Yes, that's exactly it.
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump paved the way for state officials in Texas to identify dozens of noncitizens who allegedly voted in the 2024 election.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened investigations into 33 potential noncitizens who are suspected of voting in the 2024 general election, according to a press release from his office. The Republican prosecutor said the discoveries were made possible after the Trump administration allowed Texas officials to more easily gain access to a federal database that helps identify an individual's citizenship or immigration status.
"Noncitizens must not be allowed to influence American elections, and I will use the full weight of my office to investigate all voter fraud," Paxton said Tuesday in a prepared statement.
"In order to be able to trust the integrity of our elections, the results must be determined by our own citizens -- not foreign nationals breaking the law to illegally vote," the Texas attorney general continued. "These potential instances of unlawful voting will be thoroughly investigated, and I will continue to stand with President Trump in fighting to ensure that our state's elections are safe and secure."
Following Trump's return to the White House, Texas officials were able to access the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, an online service program administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that allows various government agencies to verify the immigration status or U.S. naturalization of applicants seeking benefits or licenses.
Texas was able to access the SAVE database after Trump signed an executive order in March directing the Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of USCIS, to offer the database free of charge to every state in order to protect election integrity, according to Paxton.
"Gaining access to this database has been a game-changer," Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson said in a prepared statement earlier in June. "Not only have we been able to identify individuals who should not have voted in the last election, we have also been able to confirm naturalization of dozens more."
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The president has also voiced strong support for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, legislation sponsored by Texas GOP Rep. Chip Roy that would require state officials to obtain proof of citizenship prior to registering an individual for any federal election and also requires state officials to remove all noncitizens from existing voter rolls. That legislation passed the House in April, with only four Democrat lawmakers voting in favor of it.
More recently, the Trump administration unveiled a new partnership with the Social Security Administration to ensure "a single, reliable source for verifying immigration status and U.S. citizenship," according to a memo previously obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
There's more good news:
Stacy McCain quotes from a Center for Immigration Studies report: So far, the illegal immigrant population of the US has dropped by one million. From 15.8 million (according to one count) to 14.8 million.
Trump didn't deport one million people. He deported thousands, and many thousands more self-deported.
Remember how in 2012, during a Republican primary debate, Mitt Romney was mocked for saying he was in favor of "self-deportation"? The audience actually laughed, as Romney explained that it would not be necessary to "round people up," but rather that enforcement of the E-Verify system for employment would cause illegal aliens to leave the country voluntarily. Liberals treated this idea as if it were some kind of joke, but Romney's point -- that if the U.S. ever got serious about enforcing our immigration laws, this would encourage illegals to leave -- has now been vindicated. Steven Camarota and Karen Zeigler of the Center for Immigration Studies report:
Our analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics household survey, officially called the Current Population Survey (CPS), shows a large decline in the foreign-born or immigrant population (legal and illegal) between January and May of this year. The decline was caused by a falloff in the number of non-citizens from Latin America who arrived in 1980 or later, a population that overlaps significantly with illegal immigrants. We preliminarily estimate that the number of illegal immigrants has fallen by one million since the start of the year, perhaps due to their leaving in response to President Trump's election and stepped-up enforcement efforts. . . .
Democrats enjoy denying two things: that people respond to legal incentives, whether negatively or positively, and that sex is a real thing and not just an illusion created by "Society."
McCain adds:
Keep in mind that the average population of a Congressional district is about 760,000, so that for every 2.3 million illegal immigrants you deport, you're taking away one House seat (and one Electoral College vote) from states that have large illegal populations.
See the post for the full analysis. Thanks to The Patriarch Tree.
Bonus: Trump signed an executive order to remove all illegal aliens from the Medicaid rolls.
There are, insanely, 1.4 million illegals using this program for free medical treatment, which was of course established for America's own poor citizens.