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Dozens of congressional Republicans have penned a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding to know what he’s doing to prevent non-citizens from voting this election season.

Led by Sen. Bill Hagerty and Rep. Andy Biggs, the letter begins by noting that Garland has completely — though not shockingly — ignored a previous letter from them demanding answers.

“As of today, there has been no response from you or your Department regarding the inquiry on July 12, 2024, seeking information on efforts undertaken by your Department to enforce laws prohibiting non-citizen voting,” the letter reads, according to Fox News.

“Given that the 2024 Presidential Election is in less than 34 days, your Department’s inaction and refusal to provide any information regarding its efforts to promote public trust and confidence in our elections is especially alarming,” it continues.

It’s especially alarming, the Republicans write, given all the emerging evidence suggesting non-citizens have been registering to vote and, in some cases, even actually voting.

“Since the initial letter, several more concerning reports have been released by state officials indicating that a large number of non-citizens appear on their voter rolls,” the letter reads.

“For example, the Virginia Attorney General recently announced that 6,303 non-citizens were identified on and removed from Virginia’s voter rolls in 2022 and 2023. In another troubling report released in August, over 6,500 non-citizens registered to vote in Texas were identified and removed from voter rolls. Of the 6,500 non-citizens identified, 1,930 had a voter history,” it continues.

And then, though it isn’t mentioned in the letter, just this week it was discovered that 218,000 Arizona residents were allowed to register to vote despite never proving their citizenship status because of some sort of coding “error.”

“Clearly, there is a non-negligible amount of voter participation by non-citizens in federal elections, which is not only a serious threat to the integrity of our elections and the democratic process they represent but also has the potential to reduce Americans’ trust and confidence in election results,” the letter concludes.

The rest of the letter is just a list of questions asking, for example, how many non-citizens have been convicted of voting, what steps the DOJ  is taking to prevent non-citizens from voting, and what efforts the DOJ has made to investigate this matter further.

The sending of the letter comes about a month after the DOJ, to its credit, charged a criminal alien with stealing an American citizen’s identity to obtain a passport and vote in multiple elections.

“A nine-count information filed in U.S. District Court charges Angelica Maria Francisco, 42, most recently of Russellville, with false claims of citizenship in connection with voting, false statements in application for a United States passport, use of a United States passport obtained by false statements, and aggravated identity theft,” the DOJ said in a Sept. 5th statement.

“Francisco assumed the identity of a United States citizen in or around 2011. Francisco used the false identity to obtain a United States passport in 2011. She subsequently used the United States passport to travel to and from her native country of Guatemala in 2012, 2015, and 2018. Using the same false identity, Francisco also registered to vote in Alabama in 2016 and voted in the 2016 and 2020 primary and general elections. And in 2021, Francisco used the same false identity to apply for and receive a renewed passport, which she used to travel to and from Guatemala in 2022,” according to the DOJ.

This was clearly a good move by the DOJ. Here’s the problem: The same DOJ just this week sued Alabama for committing the apparent crime of removing non-citizens from its election rolls too close to Election Day.

“The agency argued that officials violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which requires states to complete any changes to the voter registration lists no later than 90 days before federal elections,” Fox News notes.

And then there’s the fact that, under the Biden-Harris administration, it reportedly takes less than five minutes to earn temporary legal status in the United States:

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