U.S. Senate Dems disclose Trump administration operation dug through state voter rolls

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Senate Democrats say a DHS whistleblower detailed an 'Unlawful Voter Initiative' in which U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers combed state voter rolls looking for noncitizen voting, sometimes impersonating the voter to access records. The whistleblower says faulty data swept up U.S. citizens and that officers faced pressure to hit a quota of five investigations per hour.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Alex Padilla called for DHS to shut the operation down, saying hundreds of agents were pulled from national security roles. DHS did not respond to a request for comment, but Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin separately announced two cases of noncitizens voting illegally, in Kansas and Louisiana.

Noncitizen voting in federal elections is illegal and, by most accounts, extremely rare.

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Five investigations an hour is not detective work, it is punching a clock, and anybody who has ever been handed a number to hit knows what happens to the quality of the work. Then the secretary comes along waving two cases like he found gold in the creek. Hundreds of agents pulled off other duty for that haul is a poor trade in anybody's ledger.

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