Republicans Bring Back the Noncitizen Voter Narrative

Kit Johnson

22 Oct 2025

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All of a sudden, and seemingly out of nowhere, the threat of the noncitizen voter has re-entered the chat.

Texas recently found thousands of noncitizens on their voter rolls, according to Fox News.

Earlier this month, Arkansas arrested three noncitizen Arkansas for unlawful voting.

And Trump is raising the issue over on Truth Social:

This while NPR reports that noncitizen voting "occasionally happens but in minuscule numbers, and not in any coordinated way."

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