Large Numbers of Noncitizens Don't Vote in US Elections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : By December 2023, Trump was telling supporters at an Iowa rally to "guard the vote."
47% : During the 2016 presidential race, Trump made similar comments.
32% : Trump and his supporters use the rhetoric not just to challenge the integrity of the election, but also to attack the Democratic Party's pro-immigration stance and its policies regarding the U.S.-Mexico border.
30% : A 2015 analysis of the survey Trump later used to claim that 14% of noncitizens in the United States were registered to vote found that the result was simply due to human error -- that is, all the "noncitizens" who marked themselves as registered to vote were almost certainly U.S. citizens who accidentally recorded themselves as noncitizens when taking the survey.
28% : In a tweet from October 2014, even before he announced his run for president in 2015, Trump claimed "election officials" said there were no protections preventing undocumented immigrants from voting in elections, which he said was "very bad (unfair) for Republicans."
25% : In September 2024, facing the threat of a government shutdown, Trump posted on his social media platform, Truth Social, calling for Republicans to reject any stopgap spending bill that did not include "absolute assurances on election security," because Democrats were supposedly attempting to "stuff" voter registrations with undocumented immigrants.
22% : (Trump uses the term "illegal immigrants" or "illegals" to refer to this group of people.)
19% : However, Trump's claims are contradicted by the following facts:Snopes found that Trump has publicly stated or implied that undocumented immigrants were voting in elections for at least a decade.
18% : In 2020, Trump famously claimed there was a massive amount of voter fraud and refused to concede the election to Biden.
15% : However, it is also important to examine what exactly Trump and his allies claim when criticizing or attacking Kamala Harris in that regard.
11% : In April 2024, Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson met with Trump to discuss concerns of voter fraud and noncitizen voting.

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