4/29/2024
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Former President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) held a joint press conference in Palm Beach, Florida to advocate for an election integrity bill.
At Mar-a-Lago on Friday, Trump urged President Joe Biden to “immediately close the border,” citing an increase in “migrant crime.” He then shifted focus to discussing “election interference” and the importance of ensuring “election integrity.”
“We probably have fifteen million people, and they come from places you don’t want to know about and they’re going to be big problems, and it’s getting worse,” Trump said. “It’s migrant crime. It’s a new category of crime, migrant crime. And, I’m just demanding, I just demand, as a citizen I demand, the border has to be closed. Our country cannot take it, no country could take it. It’s not sustainable by any country.”
After being introduced by Trump, Johnson explained when the House of Representatives is not in session, the Speaker of the House is “required to go around, fly around the country and be with all of our candidates and incumbents,” adding that he has been to 23 states within the past couple of weeks.
Johnson persistently criticized Biden for causing a “catastrophe” at the border, highlighting the 64 executive actions taken under Secretary Mayorkas since Biden took office that allowed the border to remain open.
In February 2024, U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered nine million border crossings at the U.S.-Mexico southern border, with over 1.8 million individuals managing to evade capture.
Additionally, data from the Census Bureau in 2023 revealed nearly 17 million illegal immigrants residing in the United States. Johnson also emphasized that aside from various issues arising from the “open border catastrophe,” there is a significant threat to election integrity.
“You need to understand something really important about federal law. Since 1993, the National Voter Registration Act, we call it the motor voter law, allows people to sign up to vote when they get a drivers license,” Johnson explained. “If an individual only does search, or simply states that they are a citizen, they don’t have to prove it. They can register that person to vote in a federal election, and you see states are currently prohibited, believe it or not, the states are prohibited from asking someone to prove that they are a citizen.”
Johnson added that they believe this is a “serious problem.”
“What we’re going to do is, the House Republicans are introducing a bill that will require proof of citizenship to vote,” Johnson added. “It seems like common sense, I’m sure all of us would agree. We only want U.S. citizens to vote in U.S. elections. But, there are some Democrats who don’t want to do that. We believe that one of their designs, one of the reasons for this open border, which everybody asks all around the country, ‘Why would they do this? Why would they allow all of this chaos? Why the violence?’ Because they want to turn these people into voters.”
Johnson added that he and Trump would “do everything” within their power to “ensure that we do have free and fair elections in this country.”
“If we don’t have that in a Constitutional Republic, we have nothing. It’s the basis of who we are as a nation,” Johnson added. “And, we owe that to the American people. So, what we’re going to do is introduce legislation to require that every single person who registers to vote in a federal election must prove that they are an American citizen first.”
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