Far-right US groups coalescing to stoke unfounded fears of non-citizens voting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The effort to crack down on non-citizen voting comes as the racist "great replacement" conspiracy theory, which alleges a covert plot to replace white populations with immigrants of color, has entered the mainstream.
57% : "When [anti-immigration groups] merge forces with the Conservative Partnership Institute or Cleta Mitchell, and the folks more broadly that are advocating against non-citizen voting," said Armiak, "it seems like it's a ploy to suppress the vote."
56% : Fears of non-citizen voting have found political expression at the state level, too.
50% : And one of the coalition's steering groups - the recently formed Immigration Accountability Project, with leaders from organizations in Mitchell's network as well as the anti-immigration movement - illustrates the increasingly close relationship between election deniers and the nativist far right.
46% : When House speaker Mike Johnson unveiled federal legislation to require proof of citizenship to vote, the director of government relations at the organization, Rosemary Jenks, joined him and a gaggle of Trump allies on the Capitol steps.
38% : "Also on the board of Immigration Accountability Project is John Zadrozny, an attorney who served in the state department under Trump and has worked for the anti-immigration Federation for American Immigration Reform and the Trump-allied America First Legal.
36% : The group's history underscores the ascent of the anti-immigration movement into the conservative mainstream; before forming Immigration Accountability Project, Jenks and Chmielenski worked as senior staff of the anti-immigration group NumbersUSA for more than a decade.
31% : Cleta Mitchell, a rightwing attorney tied to Trump, has joined with anti-immigrant groups to pour resources into election effortCleta Mitchell, an attorney who helped Donald Trump in his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, has joined forces with far-right anti-immigrant groups to pour resources into stoking unfounded fears of non-US citizens voting in federal elections.

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