Immigrant rights group seeks to block use of federal databases it says could purge legal voters
The suit says federal voter-list matching could wrongly flag naturalized citizens, with White House claims citing more than 278,000 noncitizen registrations nationwide.
- On Wednesday, CHIRLA filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and Attorney General Todd Blanche illegally target naturalized citizens to prevent them from voting.
- Following an executive order titled 'Ensuring Citizenship and Integrity in Federal Elections' signed by President Donald Trump in March, the White House claims over 278,000 non-citizens are registered nationwide, including 190,000 in California.
- UCLA Voting Rights Projects Senior Data Scientist Michael Rios warned that comparing databases without unique identifiers produces errors, stating, 'Unless databases have a unique identifier to merge them by, a similar name, birthdate, or address cannot establish that two records represent the same person.'
- Plaintiff Pedro Trujillo, a naturalized citizen, joined the lawsuit to oppose 'voter intimidation' and fears the administration is 'creating second-class citizenship where naturalized citizens are not given the rights they have earned.'
- While the Center for Election Innovation & Research reports non-citizen voting is 'extremely small,' DHS maintains it is 'laser focused on prosecuting and removing aliens who vote,' despite critics arguing such claims represent less than one-tenth of one percent of registered voters.
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UCLA project, immigrant rights group sues Homeland Security over 'threat' to voters
LOS ANGELES (KESQ) - The UCLA Voting Rights Project and others are suing the Trump administration, alleging the government's use of federal databases to erroneously target naturalized citizens who are eligible to register to vote interferes with free and fair elections, according to court papers obtained today. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the plaintiffs' case argues that the Department of Homeland Security a…
UCLA Project, Immigrant Rights Group Sues DHS Over `Threat' to Voters
The UCLA Voting Rights Project and others are suing the Trump administration, alleging the government’s use of federal databases to erroneously target naturalized citizens who are eligible to register to vote interferes with free and fair elections, according to court papers obtained Thursday. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the […]
Immigrant rights group sues Trump over voter checks targeting citizens
An immigrant rights group has sued the Trump administration over DHS checks of voter rolls. The case argues flawed federal data could intimidate and wrongly target naturalised citizens before the midterms.
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Immigrant rights group seeks to block use of federal databases it says could purge legal voters
An immigrant rights group has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration to block the Department of Homeland Security from using federal databases that the group alleges are being used to target naturalized citizens who are eligible to register to vote.
CA groups sue Homeland Security over alleged attacks on naturalized citizens' right to vote
A coalition of immigrant and voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, claiming the department is attacking naturalized citizens' right to vote.
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