Noncitizens

While 19 state attorneys general, including Arizona’s Kris Mayes, filed a lawsuit challenging a recent executive order involving election reforms, the lawsuit makes no attempt to establish noncitizen voting rights. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View the full fact brief on Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.

Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency he leads claim to have unearthed evidence to prove a longstanding conspiracy theory about Democrats orchestrating illegal voting by noncitizens on a scale large enough to swing national elections in their favor. But voting experts say the claims are highly dubious, and DOGE hasn’t released any evidence.

Though Arizona has approximately 50,000 registered voters who haven’t submitted the documents required to prove citizenship—limiting them to voting in federal elections—these voters have not been shown to be noncitizens.  AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View the full fact brief on Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.

Two Republican-led states have removed hundreds of thousands of registrations from their voter rolls this month, while another identified hundreds of non-citizen voters during their voter list maintenance.

New York’s highest court on Thursday blocked a New York City law that would have allowed noncitizens to vote in municipal elections, upholding lower court rulings that sided with Republicans who challenged the measure.

New York's top court will consider a city law allowing noncitizens to register to vote in New York City's elections this week.

The court will hear arguments in the case on Tuesday, with lawyers for Democrats arguing in favor of legislation the city already passed to allow noncitizen voters. If successful, the over 800,000 noncitizens living in the Big Apple would be able to cast ballots in city-level contests like mayoral elections. Proponents of the bill claim noncitizens are being unfairly taxed.

Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes is moving forward with allowing about 218,000 registered voters to participate in the 2024 election despite lingering questions about their citizenship.

The conservative group America First Legal sued to receive a list of the voters by Monday, while a Republican state lawmaker demanded the list in a letter. Fontes, an elected Democrat, resisted those calls, and now an Arizona court will hear arguments over Fontes’s decision to withhold the list on Oct. 15.

President Biden would veto a House Republican bill pairing a six-month government funding extension with a measure requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, the White House announced Monday.

In a statement of administration policy, the White House said the GOP proposal would needlessly set government spending “at insufficiently low levels” for six months, rather than providing a short-term stopgap to give Congress more time to pass new spending bills.

A federal judge in Texas has issued an order temporarily halting a new immigration programme from the Biden White House that officials say could protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented spouses of US citizens from deportation.

The 14-day stay issued on Monday comes in response to a lawsuit from 16 Republican-led states that sued the Biden administration over the programme.

The "Keeping Families Together" programme, which took effect last week, would apply to those who have been in the country for at least 10 years and allow them to work in the US legally.

A federal judge in Texas on Monday temporarily blocked the Biden administration from granting legal status to unauthorized immigrants married to American citizens, granting a request from 16 Republican-led states who challenged the new policy.