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Ranpy WEBER
MEMBER OF CONGRESS:
FourreentH District, TEXAS
October 9, 2024
‘The Honorable Ur M. Jaddou
Director
USS. Citizenship and Immigration Services
5900 Capital Gateway Drive
Camp Springs, Maryland 20746
Director Jaddou:
We write to you today as Members of Congress, and as Texans, in support of Secretary of State Jane
Nelson’s September 18, 2024 request to your agency to assist the State of Texas in verifying that
noncitizens are not registered to vote in our great state of Texas. Governor Greg Abbott has already
announced the removal of 6,500 potential noneitizens from Texas voter rolls; given this unsettling reality,
the federal government has a duty to ensure that Texas can accurately verify the citizenship of its voters.
‘As you know, and as Secretary Nelson notes in her letter to you, both federal and Texas law prohibit
noncitizens from registering to and casting a vote in the State of Texas. Although the Biden-Harris
administration refuses to take any action to protect states against the influx of illegal aliens at our
southern border—1,254 miles of which borders Texas—you still retain a constitutional, statutory, and
‘moral imperative to assist the state in doing what is right
‘The request submitted by the state to obtain USCIS citizenship data regarding voter registration in Texas
is not only legal, but urgent. The election is around the comer, with the deadline for voter registration
already passed on October 7, and the deadline for absentee and mail-in ballots is October 25", It is
paramount that the state’s county registrars can check and confirm the eligibility of each voter, and your
agency is the only entity with the data to help. The deadline provided by the state, October 2", left your
agency with ample time to provide that information. On the afternoon of October 2", Secretary of State
Nelson informed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that, “my office has not received any reply from the
federal government.”
This is an unacceptable dereliction of your duty.
Texas's situation is not an isolated case. ‘The Biden-Harris administration has consistently dismissed the
prospect of non-citizens voting, erroneously claiming, “current laws to prevent noneitizen voting are
working.” Yet the administration is preventing states from enforcing those laws, as evidenced by the
failure to provide Texas with citizenship data, and its recent lawsuit against Alabama’s removal of non-
citizens from its voter rolls. In June 2012, the State of Florida was forced to sue DHS to gain access to
the SAVE System to help verify the citizenship status of voters in Florida.
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required to provide under federal law. To that end, please provide our offices with copies of your
correspondence with Secretary of State Nelson, Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
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