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Unpacking Myths About Noncitizen Voting — How Heritage Foundation’s Own Data Still Proves It’s Not the Problem It’s Made Out to Be

President Trump has repeatedly claimed that huge numbers of “illegal aliens” are voting in the United States and has said that failure to pass new elections laws is an existential threat to the country. Despite these claims, available evidence on the issue demonstrates that noncitizen voting is extraordinarily rare — including evidence put forward by one of the country’s foremost proponents of changes to election laws.

New Playbook Tracks State and Local Government Responses to Heightened Federal Immigration Enforcement

As federal immigration arrests reach record highs, state and local leaders are grappling with how to protect communities from an increasingly indiscriminate and violent immigration enforcement system. Now, a new interactive resource from the American Immigration Council and Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services helps jurisdictions identify answers to this question.