The Australian military will begin recruiting some non-citizens in a bid to boost troop numbers, the country’s government has said. Only people from other members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing partnership who hold Australian permanent residency will be eligible. The move is part of a push to build a military that can resist foreign coercion […]
Claim: A new study found that “10 to 27%” of noncitizens in the U.S. are registered voters. Rating: Rating: False No “new study” concluded that 10 to 27% of noncitizens in the U.S. are registered to vote. Instead, one independent researcher, James Agresti, published a re-interpretation of a widely discredited 2014 paper to make untenable […]
Claim: Viral social media posts accurately reported in May 2024 that 143 Democrats voted to let noncitizens vote in U.S. elections. Rating: Rating: False Context: The vote was to revoke a law that allows noncitizens in Washington, D.C., to vote in local elections. Noncitizens are expressly prohibited from voting in federal elections, but municipalities in […]
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are pushing legislation to crack down on voting by noncitizens, part of an effort to sow doubts about the election outcome and take aim at immigrants who they say have no business participating in elections in the United States. They are planning on Wednesday to push through a bill that would […]
Are you saying that there are currently non-U.S. citizens voting in federal elections? And if that’s what you’re saying, then do you have an estimate of how many? And then a quick follow-up on what Democrats are saying about this bill. They’re basically saying this is a huge part of the former president’s revenge for […]
Some Republicans in Congress are pushing to require a citizenship question on the questionnaire for the once-a-decade census and exclude people who aren’t citizens from the count that helps determines political power in the United States. The GOP-led House on Wednesday was expected to vote on the Equal Representation Act which would eliminate noncitizens from […]
Voters line up outside of a Takoma Park, Md., polling place. Takoma Park is one of 17 jurisdictions nationally that allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. (Jose Luis Magana/The Associated Press) Preventing people who are not United States citizens from casting a ballot has reemerged as a focal point in the ongoing Republican drive […]
Voters line up outside of a Takoma Park, Md., polling place. Takoma Park is one of 17 jurisdictions nationally that allow noncitizens to vote in local elections. (Jose Luis Magana | The Associated Press) Preventing people who are not United States citizens from casting a ballot has reemerged as a focal point in the ongoing […]
Social media posts claim undocumented immigrants are registering to vote en masse in the US states of Arizona, Texas and Pennsylvania, due to policies that allow people to sign up without photo identification. This is false; citizenship is required to vote in federal elections and the figures cited online do not reflect new registrations, but […]
Donald Trump and the House speaker, Mike Johnson, plan to push for a bill to ban non-citizens from voting, the latest step by Republicans to falsely claim migrants are coming to the country and casting ballots. Voting when a person is not eligible – for instance if they lack US citizenship – is already illegal […]
WASHINGTON – House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will promote a bill with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting. Johnson will hold a joint press conference with Trump on Friday at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence, where the top House Republican will tout the legislation to “elevate the […]
Jan. 16—Effingham County is taking measures to make it more difficult for non-citizen immigrants to receive any locally funded services as the state of Illinois continues to experience an immigrant crisis. The situation has been exacerbated by Texas’s decision to send buses and planes full of migrants, many of the them asylum seekers, to Chicago. […]