AZMEX UPDATE 28 JAN 2019
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YCSO says undocumented immigrants cost taxpayers thousands of dollars in 2018
Numbers cited from USBP report
https://www.kyma.com/news/ycso-says-undocumented-immigrants-cost-taxpayers-thousands-of-dollars-in-2018/989224188
Posted: Jan 25, 2019 12:27 PM MST
Updated: Jan 25, 2019 04:23 PM MST
The Yuma County Sheriff's Office said 1,700 undocumented immigrants needed hospital treatment in Yuma, services that amounted to $700,000 of taxpayer money in fiscal year 2018.
YCSO sourced those numbers to the U.S Border Patrol. In the Tweet released Friday morning, YCSO said it also required over 10,000 man hours to guard everyone that was admitted into Yuma Regional Medical Center.
YCSO also said that when the Yuma sector built its border wall apprehensions went down by 95 percent.
The Tweet came hours before President Donald Trump announced an end to the government shutdown, just hours shy of hitting its fifth week. The government will reopen for three weeks, while the president says a bipartisan group will work on a package to secure the border. Border wall funding was not part of the deal.
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Texas officials flag tens of thousands of voters for citizenship checks
The list compiled by the Texas secretary of state contains 95,000 names. It's unclear exactly how many of those individuals are not actually U.S. citizens and whether that number will be available in the future.
BY ALEXA URA JAN. 25, 20195 PM
https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/25/texas-flags-tens-thousands-voters-citizenship-check/
Voters in Houston arrive to cast ballots during the last hour of voting in the primaries on March 6, 2018. Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune
The Texas secretary of state's office announced Friday it would send local election officials a list of 95,000 registered voters who the state says counties should consider checking to see whether they are U.S. citizens and, therefore, legally eligible to vote.
In an advisory released Friday afternoon, the office said it was flagging individuals who had provided the Texas Department of Public Safety with some form of documentation — including a work visa or a green card — that showed they were not a citizen when they were obtaining a driver's license or an ID card. Among the individuals flagged, about 58,000 individuals cast a ballot in one or more elections from 1996 to 2018, the secretary of state's office said.
It's unclear exactly how many of those individuals are not actually U.S. citizens and whether that number will be available in the future. In its notice to counties, the secretary of state's office said the names should be considered "WEAK" matches, using all capital letters for emphasis.
That means counties may now choose to investigate the eligibility of the individuals who were flagged, which would require them to send a notice asking for proof of citizenship within 30 days, or take no action. By law, the counties aren't allowed to automatically revoke a voter's registration without sending out such a notice.
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It's possible that individuals flagged by the state — who provided DPS with documentation that indicated they were authorized to be in the country — could have become naturalized citizens since they obtained their driver's license or ID card. A spokesman for the secretary of state said officials are "very confident" that the data received from DPS is "current."
In announcing the review of the rolls, Secretary of State David Whitley — who was appointed to the post last month after serving as deputy chief of staff to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott — immediately handed the data over to the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican who said his office will "spare no effort in assisting with these troubling cases."
But without additional verification, you can't say these individuals all engaged in illegal voting, said Chris Davis, the head of the Texas Association of Elections Administrators.
"People get naturalized," Davis said. "It's entirely too early to say that."
The numbers were released just a few weeks into a legislative session during which lawmakers may take up proposals to require some form of citizenship verification before registering to vote. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2013 rejected states' efforts to require proof of citizenship to register to vote. Other federal courts have knocked down more recent efforts.
"Integrity and efficiency of elections in Texas require accuracy of our state's voter rolls, and my office is committed to using all available tools under the law to maintain an accurate list of registered voters," Whitley said in a statement.
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But Beth Stevens, voting rights legal director for the Texas Civil Rights Project, said the announcement echoed efforts around the country to remove eligible voters from the rolls.
"The secretary's actions threaten to result in tens of thousands of eligible voters being removed from the roles, including those with the least resources to comply with the demand to show papers," Stevens said.
In a state where about 15.8 million Texans are registered to vote, the AG's office has recently pursued a small number of convictions of illegal voting by non-citizens. Past reviews of the voter rolls by other states ultimately found that only a small number of the thousands of non-citizens they initially flagged had actually voted. For years, researchers have found that voter fraud is rare and claims that non-citizens are voting in large numbers have not been substantiated.
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