Texas AG sues Biden-Harris admin for not verifying citizenship of 450K 'potentially ineligible' voters

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the Biden-Harris administration for not providing information that the Republican says he needs to verify the citizenship of 450,000 "potentially ineligible voters." 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), its secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, as well as the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and its director, Ur Jaddou, are named as defendants. 

DHS says states wishing to verify citizenship can use the USCIS SAVE program and that it will not provide an "alternative process to any state."

The federal lawsuit, filed in the Western District of Texas, claims that the Biden-Harris administration has refused to comply with federal law and answer "valid requests" for information from Paxton and Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson "for the citizenship status of the over 450,000 people on Texas's voter rolls for whom the State cannot verify their citizenship status using existing sources." 

Paxton says those over 450,000 people did not use a Texas-issued driver's license or ID card to register to vote in the state, so "those voters never had their citizenship verified." 

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Nelson wrote to Jaddou on Sept. 18 saying the Texas Secretary of State's office compiled a list of individuals on Texas' voter rolls whose citizenship could not be verified and asked for assistance in doing so.