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Glenn Pinocchio Kessler of theWashington Postassertsit is a bogus claim by Heritage Action that Democrats want to register undocumented immigrants to vote and denies that the automatic voter registration requirement inHR 1will lead to that. He clearly doesnt understand the practical problems arising from a voter registration system in which election officials do absolutely nothing to verify that individuals registering to vote areactually citizens.

Should anyone be surprised, though, when Kessler bases his assessment on the Brennan Center, a liberal advocacy group that litigates against any attempt by states to verify citizenship and that has tried to stop almost every attempt to reform the election process to ensure the security and integrity of elections?

Kessler dismisses as a minor problem the fact that the California Department of Motor Vehicles had toadmitthat, due to a glitch, 1,500 noncitizens (not one, as Kessler claims) may have been registered to vote in error through its new automatic voter registration system. What he fails to say is that California election officials didnt discover this on their own; they only found out about the mistake after a Canadian citizen went to theLos Angeles Timesandtoldthem he had gotten a notice from the DMV telling him he had been registered to vote.

Its notable that Kessler uses the politically correct term undocumented immigrants instead of illegal immigrants, which is another indication of his bias. How many of these people may have been automatically registered that California officials still dont know about? This discovery waslayeredon top of mistakes made with twenty-three thousand other registrations by California officials, something else Kessler fails to mention. Reports indicate there were as many asone hundred thousanderrors made by Californias automatic system in just the first year.

There is no way of knowing how many of these illegal immigrants may have become registered because California, as both a state that provides people with drivers licenses and a sanctuary jurisdiction, has gone toextraordinary lengthsto shield the information in its DMV files on the citizenship status of its licensees (and thus voter registrants). It wont even provide that information to law enforcement authorities.

You wouldnt know from Kesslers analysis that undocumented immigrants registering and voting in California without detection by the state isnt a new problem. Aninvestigationby the U.S. House of Representatives of the 1996 election contest between Republican Rep. Bob Dornan and Democrat Loretta Sanchez concluded that literally hundreds of ineligible immigrants had voted in that election. That election wasnt overturned because Sanchez squeaked by with just enough legal votes to win. But California election officials had no clue (or didnt care) that hundreds of registered California voters were aliens. None were ever prosecuted, and California never took any steps to fix this security hole in its registration system.

Kessler also fails to mention that Illinois has had thesame problem, with hundreds of illegal immigrants being registered because of a technical glitch in its new automatic voter registration system. Contrary to what you might hear from the Brennan Center, there sure are a lot of glitches occurring out there. Of course, Illinois is another sanctuary state that doesnt actually verify citizenship when individuals register to vote and whose DMVs shoddy practicesallowed these immigrants to registerto vote even before they implemented automatic voter registration.

Take Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick, a native and citizen of Peru whoregisteredto vote when she obtained an Illinois drivers license and then voted twice. As in California, Illinois election officials didnt detect this; the only reason we know about it is the investigation that occurred when she applied for U.S. citizenship. In fact, Kessler is apparently unaware of52 U.S.C. 20506(a)(5)(c), which specifically prohibits DMV officialseven when they know a license applicant is not a citizenfrom mak[ing] any statement to an applicant or tak[ing] any action the purpose or effect of which is to discourage the applicant from registering to vote.

Kessler doesnt mention Pennsylvania either, whereanotherglitch in the states DMV system registered over eight thousand illegal immigrants to votewithout election officials realizing they had a problem until years later. And they didnt even have an automatic voter registration system.

How often is that going to happenall over the country, given the long, extensive list of state and federal agencies subject to the mandate in HR 1including public schools, which make it a point not to learn the citizenship status of their students? Just how accurate are their databases and how often are they going to make mistakes, or send information on to election officials when they are in doubt or when they dont inquire about or really know the citizenship status of the individuals their agencies deal with, lest they be accused of trying to deny someones civil rights?

Local and state officials greatly fear such accusations and if they are in doubt, they will submit the registration rather than rock the boat and risk an accusation of having engaged in discriminatory behavior.

As to whether the Left and prominent Democrats want illegal immigrants to register and vote, which Kessler denies, one should ask why they are filing lawsuits against states like Kansas to stop new state laws that require those registering to vote to provide proof of citizenship. Why did Terry McAuliffe, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, when he was governor of Virginia,vetoa 2015 bill that would have required state courts to simply notify county election officials when individuals called for jury duty from the voter registration list were excused because they were not U.S. citizens or felons?

The only possible reason for vetoing such a bill is because you want illegal immigrants (and felons) to be able to registerand do so without detection or prosecution.

Heritage Action said in its ad against HR 1 that the Left wants to pass the bill to register illegal immigrants to vote. It is quite clear that the sponsors of HR 1, their denials and bogus fact checks notwithstanding, fully expect that the automatic voter registration mandate will result in illegal (and legal) immigrants being registered. Why else would they include a provision ( 1015(a)(2)) saying that an immigrant who is automatically registered as a result of this mandate cannot be prosecuted under any Federal or State law, adversely affected in any civil adjudication concerning immigration status or naturalization, or subject to an allegation in any legal proceeding that the individual is not a citizen of the United States?

The truth is, that America already has a problem with illegal immigrants registering and voting, as demonstrated by numerous reports and cases. Given the vulnerabilities andsecurity weaknessesin the U.S. registration system, HR 1s automatic registration threatens to make this problem much, much worse. Thus,The Washington Postsclaims to the contraryare deserving of four Pinocchios and a pants on fire for good measure.

This piece originally appeared in The National Interest https://nationalinterest.org/feature/real-hr-1-problem-illegal-immigrants-voting-182301

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The Real HR 1 Problem: Illegal Immigrants Voting? - Heritage.org

An illegal immigrant was charged after a hit-and-run left a North Carolina father of two dead.

Rolbin Pacheco was charged with drunk driving and felony death by vehicle after reportedly striking and killing 36-year-old Cheston Edwards on March 29 in Princeton, North Carolina, police said. Edwards leaves behind a 9-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter.

Pacheco, 35, is an illegal immigrant from Honduras and now wanted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency said.

Edwards was driving home after visiting his girlfriend late at night and was on the phone with her at the time of the crash. Pacheco was reportedly driving while drunk and going the wrong way on the highway. He was not injured in the deadly crash.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT BROTHERS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY STABBING A MAN TO DEATH

He needs to know that he has hurt me, deeply, said Edwardss mother, Mary Edwards. Hes taken something from me that he shouldnt have taken.

Pacheco is being held on a $1 million bond.

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The news comes as the immigration crisis along the southern border continues. The Biden administration is facing fierce criticisms of its handling of the matter, including for Vice President Kamala Harris not yet visiting the border despite being the point person on the root causes of immigration.

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By Bethany BlankleyThe Center Squarehttps://www.thecentersquare.com

Gov. Greg Abbott has sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris asking them to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

The cartels are bringing terror into Texas communities, Abbott said in his fourth letter to the administration about the border crisis.

The cartels smuggle narcotics and weapons into the United States to fund their illegal enterprises, Abbott writes. They force women and children into human and sex trafficking enriching themselves on the misery and enslavement of immigrants. They murder innocent people, including women and children. These Mexican drug cartels are foreign terrorist organizations, and it is time for the federal government to designate them as such.

The questions and concerns addressed in the previous three letters have remained unanswered by Biden and Harris, Abbott says. Harris, tasked with managing the illegal immigration crisis last month, has yet to visit the border, let alone Texas.

Meanwhile, Texas ranchers are left to fend for themselves defending their property from trespassing cartels and illegal immigrants evading law enforcement.

Landowners and ranchers living near the Texas-Mexico border have long dealt with illegal immigrants trespassing and evading Border Patrol and law enforcement. Ranchers explain that they regularly leave gates open, destroy fences and gates, light fires, break into properties and steal property.

Susan Kibbe, executive director of the South Texas Property Rights Association, said the smugglers Texans are dealing with now are heavily armed, and the illegal immigrants they are smuggling are often convicted criminals.

Kibbe obtained a video of smugglers from law enforcement after they posted it on TikTok and shared it with the media. In it, two heavily armed suspected smugglers are seen driving down a dirt road to transport people to the next alleged smuggler. The individual recording it is yelling in Spanish and pointing an AR-15 with a drum magazine out the windshield.

The video was recorded in Jim Hogg County, Texas, roughly 70 miles north of the U.S.Mexico border.

The Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sector in south Texas is the busiest in the U.S. for illegal crossings. Since Oct. 1, 2020, 1,625 criminal aliens almost four times the number during the same time period last year have been arrested.

These criminal aliens were convicted here in the United States for crimes other than immigration, ranging from murder, sexual crimes, assault and narcotics trafficking, according to a statement from the Rio Grande border sector.

Currently, more than 1,000 illegal immigrants are evading capture by Border Patrol daily along the border, and many will end up traversing private ranchlands to get further into the interior of the United States.

As a result, federal and local law enforcement are advising landowners to carry firearms on their own property.

These [smugglers] have become a lot more militant, Scott Frazier, Texas Farm Bureau board member, told GOP congress members in their recent trip to the border April 7. Youre kind of scared of them. Youre kind of scared to be out on these ranches by yourself nowadays. Definitely scared to have your family here.

In the small Texas town of Cotulla, 70 miles north of Laredo, so much criminal activity by smugglers is occurring that the local school district sent a letter to warn parents: Please be watchful of your children as they are playing outside, walking home from school, or generally out of the house.

Cotulla Independent School District Superintendent Jack Seals and La Salle County Sheriff Anthony Zertuche said, Both our communities and the rural areas of the county have experienced a great increase in law enforcement chases and bailouts.

Bailouts occur when law enforcement agents attempt to stop a driver who is transporting illegal immigrants and they jump out of the vehicle and run away before they can be detained.

Zertuche said his deputies have been responding to eight to 10 car chases per day.

These chases sometimes end in bailouts inside the city limits, the letter states. The sheriffs office has been on top of these and are apprehending all of those trying to flee after bailing out.

Although the sheriffs office has increased patrols around the schools, parents are advised to lock their vehicles and their property.

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Three people have been arrested following an investigation into the alleged supply of small boats to cross-Channel people smugglers.

On April 8, a 33-year-old woman from the Hammersmith area of west London was arrested by the National Crime Agency (NCA) at a location in Glasgow. She was taken to Carlisle police station where she was questioned by NCA investigators on suspicion of attempting to facilitate illegal immigration. A property in Hammersmith was also searched. She was released under investigation on April 9.

Her arrest followed the detention of two U.K.-based suspects on April 7 by officers of the Dutch Royal Marechaussee (KMar) in The Hague, Netherlands. The pair, a 33-year-old from Hammersmith, and the other a 28-year-old man of no fixed abode, remain in custody and now face potential prosecution by the Dutch authorities. A number of deflated boats were also seized.

The arrests are all linked to an NCA investigation into the sourcing of rigid hull inflatable boats in the U.K. and Europe, which are then transported to the Netherlands for storage.

The boats are allegedly then supplied to organized crime groups involved in smuggling people across the English Channel from northern France and Belgium.

NCA Regional Head of Investigation Jacque Beer said: Smuggling people across the Channel in small boats is extremely hazardous and can have tragic consequences. The organized crime groups behind these attempts dont care about safety or preservation of life, they just see migrants as a commodity to profit from and exploit.

In our view those who supply them with boats knowing what they are going to be used for are equally as culpable in these criminal enterprises.

This operation is a demonstration of our determination to disrupt and dismantle people smugglers business models at every step, and we are grateful for the assistance of the Dutch authorities.

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HARLINGEN, Texas (KVEO) Armed intrusions, economic losses, fever ticks, trespassing and property damage, are just a few ways ranchers along the Rio Grande are affected by the influx of migrants crossing the border illegally.

Imgoing to step lightly and tell you we do carry ourguns. Ive had armed intrusions here before, said Richard Guerra, Starr County Rancher

Guerra owns 8,000 acres along the Rio Grande. Guerra said that when the migrants cross illegally, it can come at a cost.

Some of these people do a lot of damage because they leave the gatesopen, they tear down the fences. Some of these people on the highwaythey are chases, they knock down your fence, they cut down your fence. All of that is an expense that I have tobare,nobodypays us for that, he said.

Apart from property damage Guerra said cartels on the Mexican side force ranchers to abandon their properties, leaving their animals behind which can bring across fever ticks.

People that cross sometimes bring the fever tickon humans. Plus the cattle, horses and everything that comes across the river, if they haveticks on them, then Im most likely going to be quarantined,Guerra told KVEO.

The quarantine can be costly for ranchers because they cant move their cattle until they are free of ticks.

Guerras property is patrolled by an aerostat which he said gives him some comfort and security, but there have been talks those could go away.

Itsworrisomebecausetheadministrationis saying well it cost too muchor they are going tocome up withnew technologyto replace some of that, but whenis that going to happen?Instead,they are shutting these things down, with nonew technology. Well, were going to have a tsunamiof people comingacross, Guerra said.

Guerra said that ranchers concerns need to be addressed and they need to be compensated for their losses either from the state or federal government.

Ihope that this president and administration wakes up, he said We do have a crisis, they need to address it, do not sugar coat it, its a problem.

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