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United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) says 80 percent of those change of status applications are completed within 17 months, and the median processing time in fiscal 2024 has ...
PolitiFact, "Fact-checking Trump's claim on cost of illegal immigration, number of immigrants here illegally," Jan. 28, 2019 PolitiFact, "No evidence ‘many’ illegal immigrants voted in midterm ...
Minnesota grants driver’s licenses to residents regardless of immigration status, though officials have said there are sufficient safeguards against illegal voting as part of the process.
While initial research showed that 22 states or territories, including colonies before the Declaration of Independence, have at some time given at least some voting rights to non-citizens in some or all elections, [14] [4] more recent and in-depth studies uncovered evidence of 40 states providing suffrage for non-citizens at some point before 1926. [3]
[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]
Of all Senators voting against the bill, Senator Monica R. Martinez faced the most criticisms as she had previously been a supporter of the effort to restore access to drivers licenses for illegal immigrants, but changed her position after becoming a New York State Senator. [56] [57] [58]
With that in mind, here’s a look at the evidence in the specific states Johnson mentions about the infinitesimal number of undocumented people registering to vote or actually voting in US elections.
In an October 2010 Pew Hispanic Center report, Latinos ranked education, jobs, and health care as their top three issues of concern, while immigration ranked as the fourth most important issue. [38] In 2020, the economy, health care, and the COVID-19 pandemic were reported to be the top three most important issues for Latino voters. [39]