LaRose sues Homeland for access to citizenship data
(The Center Square) – Less than two weeks after 16 Republican attorneys general pressured the Department of Homeland Security for voter registration information, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose sued. LaRose wants access to citizenship records to continue to remove noncitizens from the state voter rolls. “I swore an oath to uphold our state constitution, and that document clearly requires that only United States citizens can participate in Ohio elections,”...
Texas sues Department of Homeland Security for voter citizenship data
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken the Biden administration to court over access to citizenship data ahead of the election, demanding the Department of Homeland Security verify the citizenship status of people who may be illegally registered to vote.
‘US doesn’t see me as an American’: Thousands of adoptees live in limbo without citizenship
The 50-year-old newspaper was turning yellow and its edges fraying, so she had it laminated, not as a memento but as proof — America made a promise to her, and did not keep it.She pointed to the picture in the corner of her as a little girl in the rural Midwest, hugging the family Yorkshire terrier, with dark pigtails and brown eyes so round people called her Buttons. Next to her sit smiling, proud parents — her father an Air Force veteran who had survived a German prison camp in World War II and found her in an...
Judge orders Alabama to stop purging possible noncitizens from voter rolls
A judge barred the Alabama secretary of state from moving forward with a program designed to clear noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls, saying in an order on Wednesday that the program violated federal law and had a high error rate. Judge Anna Manasco said that when Secretary of State Wes Allen, an elected Republican, deactivated more than 3,200 […]