The Biden-Harris administration has been anything but cooperative in helping state election officials track noncitizens on voter rolls. Perhaps that has something to do with the real Big Lie that the federal “honor system” stops foreign nationals from registering to vote and casting ballots.
As of this weekend, Iowa’s senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst seemed to be getting nowhere with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The Republicans are demanding the agency immediately respond to Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s request for assistance to track the citizenship status of nearly 2,200 registered Iowa voters “who self-identified as non-citizens.”
“Anything short of the information Secretary Pate requested is unacceptable. Iowa has worked in good faith to secure its electoral process and safeguard Americans’ cherished right to vote. Unfortunately, USCIS’ stonewalling has led to more questions than answers,” Grassley and Ernst wrote in a joint statement issued Saturday.
‘Time Is of the Essence’
While USCIS’s Des Moines Field Office has completed its review, the federal agency’s headquarters is refusing to turn the information over to state officials, according to the lawmakers and Pate.
On Thursday, Pate sent Grassley a letter alerting the senator about his “urgent pleas” to USCIS to release the critical data.
“Time is of the essence, as voting in Iowa has been underway since October 16 and Iowa election law requires absentee ballots be separated from their carrier envelopes on Monday, November 4,” the senators wrote in a joint letter to Immigration Services. “We expect a response to this letter and for the information to be released to Iowa’s Secretary of State by end of day Friday, November 1. If that doesn’t happen, you will be playing into the very serious concerns of Iowans that the Biden-Harris administration is not following federal law and not taking
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