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More than 1,600 Virginia voters who said they were not US citizens will be reinstated to cast ballots in the 2024 election.A President Biden-appointed federal judge Friday ordered Virginia to...
This week the Supreme Court revived Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s effort to purge 1,600 people he says are suspected noncitizens from the state’s voter registration rolls using ...
For context, more than 4.5 million people in North Carolina voted in the 2016 presidential election. A 1996 federal law prevents noncitizen voting in federal elections; the Justice Department has ...
Nearly two dozen voting, civil and immigrant rights groups have called on Youngkin to release more information about the people removed from Virginia’s voter lists, “to ensure that Virginia ...
In 2021, New York City passed a law allowing legal immigrants the right to vote in city and borough elections. [79] This law was struck down in June 2022 as violating the New York State constitution, preventing it from going into effect. [80] An appeals court upheld that decision in February 2024, though the city planned to appeal further. [81]
U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles blocked a state program Friday that had removed about 1,500 names since Aug. 7 because federal law prohibits voter purges within 90 days of an election.
[223] [224] Under Section 216 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, the 104th United States Congress designated non-citizen voting in federal elections as a felony by punishment of a fine or imprisonment. [225]
Aside from the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, there was no applicable deportation law in the United States until an 1882 statute specifically geared towards Chinese immigrants. [1] The Alien and Sedition Acts gave the President of the United States the power to arrest and subsequently deport any alien that he deemed dangerous. [ 5 ]