Trump and Mike Johnson push for redundant ban on non-citizens voting
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 under federal law.
It is unclear what the bill Johnson and the former president will discuss in their Friday press conference at Mar-a-Lago will do to alter that.
But it is one more way for the former president to focus on election security and to ding the Biden administration over the situation at the US-Mexico border, a key issue for likely Republican voters this November.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/11/trump-mike-johnson-migrant-voting-bill?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other