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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick Profile picture
@ReichlinMelnick
Oct 21 • 7 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
🚨This is FALSE. The characterization of this report is MADE UP. The Texas investigation found 2,274 “potential noncitizens” on the voter rolls out of over 18 million (0.01%).

AT NO POINT does the investigation say any of these “potential noncitizens” are “illegal immigrants.” Image
This MASSIVE ERROR appears to come from Fox News not realizing that “potential noncitizen” is not a synonym “illegal immigrant.”

Here is the ENTIRE press release from the Texas Secretary of State. Note that AT NO POINT does she say that those flagged are “illegal immigrants.” Image
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We know from MANY such audits in the past that people flagged in this situation as “potential noncitizens” usually ARE U.S. citizens, but got flagged b/c of a data error.

For example, last year Alabama claimed to have found 3,251 noncitizens on the voting roll — which was false! Image
As I’ve written in the past, unlawful noncitizen voting only happens on an extremely rare basis; and when it does, it is usually people with green cards who falsely believed they could vote legally, usually because a government official gave them bad advice. Image
Yep. Here we have Fox News doing a demonstrably false write-up of a press release following a Texas Secretary of State audit, and then @DHSgov amplifying that false message without even doing basic due diligence.

Embarrassing stuff all around, and how misinformation spreads.
@DHSgov My speculation is that the Fox News reporter thought “noncitizen” meant “illegal immigrant,” even though it obviously does not, and that no editor at the publication bothered to correct the error or even noticed it.
@DHSgov The 0.01% figure was just potential noncitizen registrations, and many will never have voted or in fact be citizens. The actual rate of noncitizen voting is likely closer to 0.0001%, according to several estimates.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick Profile picture
Oct 21
Hey @DHSGov: if you want me and other nonpartisan experts to trust your numbers, publish the data! The moment you took office you STOPPED publishing monthly data on immigration enforcement.

There hasn't been a single normal ICE arrest data release since inauguration! Image
Since I have your attention, here are the datasets you STOPPED publishing:

1. The monthly Immigration Enforcement tables: no update since January: ohss.dhs.gov/topics/immigra…
2. The quarterly ICE arrest data: no update since January. ice.gov/statistics
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I'll also add that if you'd bothered to even read the second post in my thread, I *explicitly acknowledged* that the Trump admin is likely to break records.

That said: do you deny that the 515,000 number includes CBP administrative returns at airports?
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Oct 13
This makes NO SENSE. A 13-year-old was arrested by local police for unknown reasons, and then turned over to ICE, which is detaining him far away from his mother — who is going through immigration court, has an asylum application on file, and is legally authorized to work. Image
Important context from @TriciaOhio that I'm posting in the interest of fairness. I do not automatically trust it given that she has made multiple inaccurate claims in the past (including even yesterday). IF true, it would at least provide an explanation.
@TriciaOhio To be clear, absolutely none of that information is included in public reporting on this story and the Everett Police Department did not give any statement to the Boston Globe about the initial arrest. Tricia is the the first person to ever give this info.
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Oct 10
UPDATE: Judge Perry’s opinion blocking the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago is out!

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. Image
Judge Perry spends four pages going over the history of the debates around the Constitution as to the proper relationship of the President to a state militia, especially after overthrowing the British, who had maintained standing armies in the colonies against their wishes. Image
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The Trump admin says Trump is authorized to deploy the Texas National Guard to Chicago under the specific law below. They say there is:

- (2) a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of US
- (3) the President is “unable with regular forces to execute the laws.” Image
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick Profile picture
Oct 5
Stephen Miller has now declared this Trump-appointed judge an insurrectionist.

To emphasize, the judge painstakingly examined all the protest happening in Portland before Trump activated the Guard. She noted that there hadn't been any violence at a protest since mid-July. Image
Here's how Judge Immergut summarized the last two and a half months of protests at the ICE facility in Portland; they "generally were limited to fewer than 30 people and were 'largely sedate.'"

Stephen Miller's efforts to claim insurrection in this decision is pure propaganda. Image
Here are the FOUR incidents the Trump admin said justified federalizing the Guard.

- Some protesters displayed a makeshift guillotine.
- A picture of an unmarked ICE vehicle was posted online.
- Protesters twice shined high-power flashlights at ICE officers' faces.

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Oct 2
In this raid, they dragged naked children out of their homes and put them into U-Haul vans. And now they're bragging about it.

U.S. citizens had their doors smashed down and were forced into handcuffs and held outside for hours. Senior citizens held outside, their homes trashed. Image
Story here: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/20…
It was 37 people in the raid highlighted in the video posted by @DHSGov. The 900 number is for the entire Chicago operation over the last couple weeks.
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Oct 2
This is FALSE. The first thing Vance describes is Emergency Medicaid — not a "Biden" program, from 1986, and not eliminated in the OBBBA.

The second is Cuban/Haitian Entrant Assistance from 1980 (also not Biden-era), and was EXCLUDED from the OBBBA Medicaid cuts (see highlight)! Image
Provide a single piece of evidence that anything I posted above is wrong. One.

Am I lying that Emergency Medicaid (1986) and Cuban/Haitian Entrant Assistance (1980) are not "Biden-era"? Am I making it up that the OBBBA doesn't eliminate either?
So in response to my entirely correct statement that Vance is not telling the truth (in multiple respects) about what the Democrats are demanding in the shutdown, you bring up a completely unrelated issue that is not impacted by the shutdown debate at all?
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