Star Parker Founder & President, Center for Urban Renewal and Education
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Congress must pass SAVE Act without delay

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Star Parker Founder & President, Center for Urban Renewal and Education
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is currently pushing for the passage of the controversial SAVE Act, a bill that would require voters to show proof of citizenship at the polls. Democrats have pledged to oppose it. Former President Donald Trump has urged congressional Republicans to pursue a government shutdown if they can’t secure passage of this legislation, which he says is critical for election security.

In the above video, Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker echoes Trump’s call for the bill to become law. Parker argues that with the Biden-Harris administration allowing millions of migrants into the U.S., safeguarding the integrity of the American electoral system is more crucial than ever.


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The following is an excerpt from the above video:

The SAVE Act takes necessary steps to fix this problem and affirms current law by requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections. It requires states to establish a program to remove non-citizens from their existing voter rolls and gives the states immediate, no-cost access to federal databases with citizenship information to do so. 

Even as they decry “threats to democracy,” Democrats are opposing efforts to ensure public confidence in our elections. As civil rights advocates have done in the past, Republicans have turned to the courts and urged them to allow states to require proof of citizenship and an equal number of poll workers and election inspectors. They have won some victories in the courts and are recruiting thousands of volunteers to help ensure voter integrity throughout the expanded voting periods in many battleground states.

Protecting the integrity of America’s electoral system is critical to ensuring the freedom and dignity of all Americans, including those in our most distressed communities.

At a crucial time in American history, Republicans on behalf of former slaves, 4 million former slaves, passed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, granting citizenship and civil rights to emancipated blacks, and guaranteeing that the right to vote could not be denied based on in quotes, race, color or previous condition of servitude. End quote. Over the last several months, congressional Republicans have attempted to continue this legacy by seeking to pass the safeguard American voter eligibility save Act legislation that protects these important rights by ensuring that black Americans and all Americans are not disenfranchised by allowing illegal people to cancel the impact of their votes. The Biden Harris administration has released nearly 5 million illegal migrants into the United States, and an estimated 2 million got aways are also known to have entered our precious country. The administration is providing federal benefits to many of these illegal migrants, and they are conducting a massive voter registration campaign for people receiving government benefits in many states, non citizens, including illegal migrants, are eligible for driver’s license, which can further facilitate voting by serving as a form of identification. Now, while only US citizens are legally eligible to vote in federal elections. The 1993 National Voter Registration Act, it undermines this policy because it doesn’t allow states to verify citizenship for voting in federal elections. The Save Act takes the necessary steps to fix this problem and affirm current law by requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, it requires states to establish a program to remove non citizens from their existing voter rolls and give the states immediate, no cost access to federal databases with citizenship information to do so, even as they decry threats to democracy, these Democrats are opposed. They’re opposing this effort to ensure that the public confidence in our elections is sure, as the civil rights advocates have done in the past, Republicans have turned to the courts and urged them to allow states to require proof of citizenship and an equal number of poll workers and election inspectors. You wonder what’s wrong with that? The Democrats oppose it. Look they’ve won some victories in the course and are recruiting 1000s of volunteers to help ensure voter integrity throughout the expanded voting period in many of our battleground states. But this battle continues, and it should continue, and Republicans are right, because protecting the integrity of America’s electoral system is critical to ensuring the freedom and the dignity of all Americans, including those that are in our most distressed communities, in order to protect democracy and ensure confidence in our elections, Republicans and Democrats together should pass the Save act without any further delay. The.

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