Dems fight bill to stop illegal immigrant voting despite polls showing voter support

The House passed the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act connected Thursday, with 208 Democrats voting against the President Donald Trump-backed measurement that would ace down connected noncitizen voting.

The SAVE Act, which passed 220-208, present heads to the Senate, wherever it volition request the enactment of immoderate Democrats to conscionable the 60-vote threshold for advancement. Democrats person rejected the bill, contempt polling indicating bipartisan enactment for elector ID requirements. 

A Gallup Poll released up of the 2024 election recovered that 84% of respondents favour requiring a photograph ID to vote, and 83% enactment requiring impervious of citizenship erstwhile registering to ballot for the archetypal time. 

If passed successful the Senate and signed into instrumentality by Trump, the SAVE Act by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, would necessitate voters to get impervious of citizenship successful idiosyncratic earlier they registry for a national election, and it would region noncitizens from elector rolls. 

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The House passed the SAVE Act connected noncitizen voting. It needs to walk successful the Senate earlier President Donald Trump tin motion it into law. (Getty)

"After 4 years of wide amerciable migration facilitated by the Biden administration, it is much important present than ever to guarantee lone American citizens are voting successful American elections. By passing the SAVE Act, House Republicans are erstwhile again proving our committedness to defending the volition of the American people," House GOP Majority Whip Tom Emmer told Fox News Digital. 

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Meanwhile, Democrats person rejected the accusation that amerciable immigrants are voting successful U.S. elections. Nineteen Democrat-led states and Democrat leaders sued the Trump administration's predetermination integrity executive order requiring impervious of citizenship to ballot successful American elections. 

"Noncitizens attempting to registry to ballot is exceedingly rare, and if they do, they look terrible consequences, including fines up to 5 years successful prison, and deportation," Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Ore., said connected the House floor, urging her colleagues to cull the SAVE Act. 

People get to formed their ballot during aboriginal voting. (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"Coupled with President Trump's caller anti-voter predetermination enforcement order, the SAVE Act would extremity the elector registration process for each Americans arsenic they cognize it. Republicans person repeatedly failed to contiguous immoderate grounds that noncitizen voting astatine a national level has ever affected the result of immoderate election," Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., added successful absorption to what helium called the "extremist anti-voter SAVE Act."

The SAVE Act passed a procedural hurdle known arsenic a "rule vote" connected Wednesday. A elemental bulk of House lawmakers was needed to walk the "rule" to let for statement and eventual House-wide votes connected the legislation.

It was archetypal introduced successful July 2024 nether erstwhile President Joe Biden's medication and failed to walk done the Democrat bulk successful the Senate. Roy reintroduced the measure successful January arsenic the measure was much apt to walk nether a Republican-controlled House, Senate and White House. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump onstage astatine a House Republicans Conference gathering connected Nov. 13, 2024, successful Washington. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"The American radical person spoken precise intelligibly that they judge lone American citizens should ballot successful American elections. There's thing arguable astir that," Roy said connected the House level up of the votes. 

"This authorities is designed to reconstruct that faith, to prevention our elections, to prevention predetermination integrity. I'm arrogant to person worked connected this measure with my friend, the Chairman, with my colleagues connected this broadside of the aisle, and I would enactment that 5 of my Democrat colleagues joined america past summertime to ballot for this bill. Hardly a partisan workout to accidental that we should support the elections of the American people," helium added. 

The measure made headway during the 2024 statesmanlike predetermination arsenic the Republican National Committee (RNC) led elector integrity efforts successful battleground states crossed the country. Trump has agelong supported the authorities and held a Mar-a-Lago property league past summertime with House Speaker Mike Johnson affirming Republican enactment for the bill. 

Voters marque selections astatine their voting booths wrong an aboriginal voting tract successful North Carolina. (Melissa Sue Gerrits)

Voter registration is handled connected the authorities level, truthful rules requiring impervious of citizenship oregon photograph ID disagree by state. Thirty-six states petition or require recognition to vote. The SAVE Act would federalize the issue, requiring impervious of citizenship to ballot and removing non-citizens from elector rolls. 

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When Virginia, led by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, attempted to region non-citizens from the state's elector rolls, Biden's Justice Department rejected the programme and tried to reconstruct the canceled elector registrations. The Supreme Court's blimpish bulk upheld Virginia's removal of astir 1,600 radical from the elector rolls.