President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> said Thursday that he would release a report on the recent mystery drone sightings reported in New Jersey and other states once he takes office. 
Trump made the comments as he met with Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago, prompting several to chime in with their own reports of drone sightings. Last month, the FBI, FAA, and Pentagon said they identified no threats among the 500 drone sightings they had investigated based on public tips.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration because I think it&#8217;s ridiculous that they&#8217;re not telling you about what&#8217;s going on with the drones,” Trump said, noting that drones had been spotted over his property in Bedminster, New Jersey. “It’s not only with me, [Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin] was telling me today that in Virginia they have drones all over the place too and nobody is reporting it.” 
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration because I think it&#8217;s ridiculous that they&#8217;re not telling you about what&#8217;s going on with the drones.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/BnUBaAsBl6">pic.twitter.com/BnUBaAsBl6</a>
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Trump said he would issue a report on the drones “shortly” after his inauguration on January 20. 
“They don’t want to talk about it and nobody knows why,” Trump said. “That could be us sending drones, I hope that’s the case, us doing it and doing research and maybe they don’t want to talk about it from that standpoint. I hope it&#8217;s not an enemy, but we’re going to find out on the 21st.”
Referencing how much of the U.S. military and intelligence infrastructure is in Virginia, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said that drones had been flying over secure air space for the last two years. 
“For two years running we have had drone incursion over secure air space and we still don’t know why. And I think that’s absolutely unacceptable,” Youngkin said. “And I think President Trump and the new leadership coming in will work diligently to understand who’s behind this and what we do in order to stop the digital surveillance of all our secure infrastructure.”
Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry said that his state had recently seen drones flying over its nuclear reactors but that the FAA had done nothing after they brought it to their attention. 
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Wyoming Republican Governor Mark Gordon added that he had also struggled to deal with drones being flown over critical infrastructure. 
“We have drones in Wyoming flying over our infrastructure as well,” he said. “And it&#8217;s incredibly frustrating that we not only have no way of knowing what it is, but nobody knows how to deal with them.”

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to go forward with removing around 1,600 non-citizens from its voter rolls after two lower courts ruled in favor of the Biden-Harris Department of Justice&#8217;s request to block the commonwealth&#8217;s voter roll purge.
A majority of the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/103024zr_f2ah.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">granted</a> Virginia&#8217;s request for a stay on a U.S. District Court&#8217;s order, with liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson saying they would&#8217;ve denied Virginia&#8217;s request.
The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/103024zr_f2ah.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that the lower court&#8217;s decision is &#8220;stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought.&#8221; The court added that the stay would &#8220;terminate automatically&#8221; if writ of certiorari is denied.
&#8220;We are pleased by the Supreme Court’s order today. This is a victory for commonsense and election fairness. I am grateful for the work of Attorney General @JasonMiyaresVA on this critical fight to protect the fundamental rights of U.S. citizens,&#8221; Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin <a href="https://x.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1851631305353482681" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on social media. &#8220;Clean voter rolls are one important part of a comprehensive approach we are taking to ensure the fairness of our elections.&#8221;
State officials argued that the lower court&#8217;s injuction harm &#8220;Virginia&#8217;s sovereignty, confuse her voters, overload her election machinery and administrators, and likely lead noncitizens to think they are permitted to vote, a criminal offense that will cancel the franchise of eligible voters,&#8221; CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-virginia-voter-rolls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
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Virginia filed an appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit kept in place a ruling from a Biden-appointed District Court judge who ordered the commonwealth to keep non-citizens on its voter rolls. Youngkin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-commonsense-virginia-asks-scotus-to-allow-removal-of-non-citizens-from-voter-rolls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blasted</a> the lower courts&#8217; rulings, saying, &#8220;It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls.&#8221;
Youngkin issued an executive order in August to ensure that officials checked voter roll data daily and matched it up with data from the DMV, which resulted in around 1,600 non-citizens being removed from Virginia’s voter rolls. The voter roll purge was challenged by the DOJ along with groups of private organizations, which argued that the 90-day “quiet period” before an election required in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 ensures that legitimate voters aren’t removed by bureaucratic error.
In previous district court decisions, however, the 90-day deadline in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 has been <a href="https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/the-national-voter-registration-act-does-not-prevent-states-removing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interpreted</a> to mean that a state is prohibited from removing a voter from the rolls “based on a change in the residence of the registrant,” not from removing non-citizens.

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The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Virginia have filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of the United States to stay a decision by a Biden-nominated judge who blocked an effort to keep non-citizens from voting.
After Virginia GOP Governor Glenn Youngkin ordered election officials to identify and cancel suspected non-citizens&#8217; voter registrations on August 7, the Biden-Harris administration claimed Youngkin’s actions violated the 1993 National Voter Registration Act. On October 25, two weeks before the national election, U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered the state to restore more than 1600 voters’ registrations which had been removed as part of Youngkin’s efforts.
“With only one week to our country’s most important election, Democrats are now taking extraordinary measures to keep non-citizens on voter rolls,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley stated. “Kamala’s Administration sued Virginia and is now arguing to the U.S. Supreme Court that non-citizens must remain on the voter rolls. We are supporting Governor Youngkin’s efforts in the Supreme Court and fighting for only Americans to determine the future of our country.”
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As the <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A407/330552/20241029131746854_24A407%20Beals_SCOTUS_Amicus_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">amicus brief</a> noted, “The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 was passed to ‘increase the number of eligible citizens who register to vote in elections for Federal office,’ ‘protect the integrity of the electoral process,” and “ensure that accurate and current voter registration rolls are maintained.’ The district court’s ruling, affirmed by the Fourth Circuit, cuts directly against these purposes. Rather than increasing participation by eligible citizens, and ensuring the integrity of our elections, the ruling below prohibits states from preventing self-described non-citizens from illegally registering to vote. This is not, and cannot be, correct.”
“Due to the proximity to the 2024 election, there will be irreparable harm if the order below is permitted to stand unabated. The consequence of that order is that non-citizens — who all agree cannot legally vote — will be added back on the voter rolls at the last minute, diluting legitimate votes and exposing those non-citizens to a substantial risk of criminal prosecution should they misunderstand the lower courts’ order as a green light to vote unlawfully.”

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Virginia filed an appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court after a Biden-appointed judge ruled last week that the commonwealth must put non-citizens back onto its voter rolls just days before the 2024 election.
U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles&#8217; order was kept in place by a federal appeals court on Sunday, prompting Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares to take the case to the Supreme Court. Youngkin&#8217;s attorneys argued before the federal appeals court that the lower court&#8217;s injunction against Virginia purging voter rolls on non-citizens was legally flawed and too disruptive before the election, POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/10/27/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis/virginia-voter-purge-still-on-hold-00185734" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
In a unanimous ruling, the three judges on the appeals court said that Virginia&#8217;s process for removing non-citizen voters during a 90-day &#8220;quiet period&#8221; before the election by using data from the Department of Motor Vehicles appears to violate the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The judges said that Virginia officials &#8220;remain able to prevent noncitizens from voting by canceling registrations on an individualized basis or prosecuting any noncitizen who votes.”
In 2012, however, federal district courts in Florida <a href="https://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/the-national-voter-registration-act-does-not-prevent-states-removing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interpreted</a> the 90-day deadline in the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to mean that a state is prohibited from removing a voter from the rolls “based on a change in the residence of the registrant,” not from removing non-citizens.
Youngkin issued an executive order in August to ensure that officials checked voter roll data daily and matched it up with data from the DMV, which resulted in around 1,600 non-citizens being removed from Virginia&#8217;s voter rolls.
&#8220;It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls. Thank you @JasonMiyaresVA for filing immediately with the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency appeal of the order for Virginia to put over 1,500 people who self-identified as non-citizens back on the voter rolls,&#8221; Youngkin posted on X on Sunday.
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It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls. Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonMiyaresVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JasonMiyaresVA</a> for filing immediately with the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency appeal of the order for Virginia to put over 1,500 people who self-identified as non-citizens back on the voter rolls. <a href="https://t.co/rY4ymZduqq">https://t.co/rY4ymZduqq</a>
&mdash; Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1850683138797650244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Republican governor also <a href="https://x.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1849826145258148113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last week that a Virginia law passed in 2006, which was signed by then-Governor Tim Kaine, a Democrat, “mandates certain procedures to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls, with safeguards in place to affirm citizenship before removal–and the ultimate failsafe of same-day registration for U.S. citizens to cast a provisional ballot.&#8221;
&#8220;This law has been applied in every Presidential election by Republicans and Democrats since enacted 18 years ago,&#8221; Youngkin added.
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Youngkin&#8217;s voter roll purge was challenged by the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s Justice Department along with a group of private organizations, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/virginia-voter-registration-noncitizens-purge-appeal-b1d174ea90a7ac6e6fb1b9c623b7402e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The DOJ argued that the 90-day &#8220;quiet period&#8221; before an election ensures that legitimate voters aren&#8217;t removed by bureaucratic error.
Following Judge Giles&#8217; order against Virginia last week, former President Donald Trump <a href="https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1849854572317245951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1849854572317245951%7Ctwgr%5E30751eec62d5e62dae7e16ccdb6ac296ea9fdbb3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fbiden-harris-judge-orders-virginia-to-put-non-citizens-back-on-voter-rolls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sounded off</a> and defended Youngkin&#8217;s voter roll purge.
&#8220;Sleepy Joe Biden and Comrade Kamala Harris ridiculously accuse me of wanting to &#8216;weaponize&#8217; the Justice Department, when they have done all of the weaponizing. Now, their truly Weaponized Department of &#8216;Injustice,&#8217; and a Judge (appointed by Joe), have ORDERED the Great Commonwealth of Virginia to PUT NON-CITIZEN VOTERS BACK ON THE ROLLS,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;This is a totally unacceptable travesty, and Governor Youngkin is absolutely right to appeal this ILLEGAL ORDER, and the U.S. Supreme Court will hopefully fix it! Only U.S. Citizens should be allowed to vote. Keep fighting, Glenn &#8211; AND REPUBLICANS IN VIRGINIA, KEEP VOTING EARLY! I will be calling in to Glenn’s Rally with Lara Trump tomorrow morning to talk about this crazy Ruling, and announce my final stop in Virginia before Election Day. TUNE IN!&#8221;

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‘It’s Commonsense’: Virginia Asks SCOTUS To Allow Removal Of Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls

'It's Commonsense': Virginia Asks SCOTUS To Allow Removal Of Noncitizens From Voter Rolls

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A federal judge sided with the Biden-Harris administration on Friday in ruling that Virginia must put non-citizen immigrants back on its voter rolls after they were removed by the state in compliance with state law.
U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles, who was appointed by the Biden-Harris administration, ordered that Virginia must put the non-citizens back on the voter rolls, even though it is illegal for them to vote.
&#8220;Let’s be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over 1,500 individuals–who self-identified themselves as noncitizens–back onto the voter rolls,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1849826145258148113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin. &#8220;Almost all these individuals had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status, a fact recently verified by federal authorities.&#8221;
Youngkin noted that the law, passed in 2006, was signed by then-Governor Tim Kaine, a Democrat.
The law &#8220;mandates certain procedures to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls, with safeguards in place to affirm citizenship before removal–and the ultimate failsafe of same-day registration for U.S. citizens to cast a provisional ballot,&#8221; Youngkin said. &#8220;This law has been applied in every Presidential election by Republicans and Democrats since enacted 18 years ago.&#8221;
Youngkin said that the state would immediately file a petition with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court, for an emergency stay of the injunction.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called Giles&#8217; ruling &#8220;a totally unacceptable travesty&#8221; and announced that he would now host a rally in the state before Election Day.
&#8220;Sleepy Joe Biden and Comrade Kamala Harris ridiculously accuse me of wanting to &#8216;weaponize&#8217; the Justice Department, when they have done all of the weaponizing,&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;Now, their truly Weaponized Department of &#8216;Injustice,&#8217; and a Judge (appointed by Joe), have ORDERED the Great Commonwealth of Virginia to PUT NON-CITIZEN VOTERS BACK ON THE ROLLS.&#8221;
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&#8220;This is a totally unacceptable travesty, and Governor Youngkin is absolutely right to appeal this ILLEGAL ORDER, and the U.S. Supreme Court will hopefully fix it!&#8221; he added. &#8220;Only U.S. Citizens should be allowed to vote. Keep fighting, Glenn &#8211; AND REPUBLICANS IN VIRGINIA, KEEP VOTING EARLY! I will be calling in to Glenn’s Rally with Lara Trump tomorrow morning to talk about this crazy Ruling, and announce my final stop in Virginia before Election Day. TUNE IN!&#8221;
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Sleepy Joe Biden and Comrade Kamala Harris ridiculously accuse me of wanting to “weaponize” the Justice Department, when they have done all of the weaponizing. Now, their truly Weaponized Department of “Injustice,” and a Judge (appointed by Joe), have ORDERED the Great…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1849854572317245951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin said over the weekend that former President Donald Trump was surging in the polls because he cares about the issues that matter the most to voters.
Youngkin made the remarks during a &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; interview with Shannon Bream while discussing the state of the 2024 presidential race.
He said that the reason Democrats resort to making pathetic attacks against Trump is that they do not have a candidate in Vice President Kamala Harris who is &#8220;unable to really convey a future vision for the country and what she will do to tackle the most important issues.&#8221;
&#8220;The reality, of course, is if they would just focus on what the voters are focusing on, which is the economy, the border, national security, and of course, feeling safe in our own country because of the number of illegal immigrants who have come across and turned every state into a border state,&#8221; Youngkin said.
He said that as he travels around his purple state and listens to voters that what he hears is their &#8220;massive concern about the economic future and their ability to afford groceries, gas, tuition, and to buy a home or make rental payments.&#8221;
&#8220;What I hear over and over again are major concerns about the millions of people that have come across the border and the hundreds of thousands of violent criminals that have crossed the border, just identified two weeks ago by senior ICE officials,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What I also hear are major concerns about safety. These are the topics President Trump is talking about.&#8221;
&#8220;The reason why the other side can&#8217;t talk about them, and why they want to distract everyone, is because they have demonstrated over the last three and a half years that they don&#8217;t have the answers,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They&#8217;ve unleashed unprecedented inflation that has been a gut punch anytime someone walks into a grocery store, they&#8217;ve allowed millions upon millions of illegal immigrants to come across the border and turn every state into a border state.&#8221;
He said that what has happened over the last three and a half years is the result of having a weak president and vice president in office.
&#8220;Americans and Virginians want strength back in the White House,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;They want someone who will stand for a strong economy, where the lives of all Americans are lifted, like we had before. High growth and low inflation, not low growth and high inflation, where people can&#8217;t get great jobs, and where manufacturing comes back to the United States. This is the future Virginians and Americans are talking to me about, and that&#8217;s why we see President Trump surging in the polls around the country.&#8221;
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/GovernorVA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GovernorVA</a> discusses the DOJ&#8217;s lawsuit against Virginia, over the timing of the removal of noncitizens from voter rolls. <a href="https://t.co/RcxEVEzoTj">pic.twitter.com/RcxEVEzoTj</a>
— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNewsSunday/status/1848007013860847846?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2024</a></blockquote>

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The U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> explicitly approved a Virginia law designed to prevent noncitizens from being added to voter rolls. Now the Biden-Harris DOJ is suing the state for enforcing it, The Daily Wire has exclusively learned.
The law has been in force since 2007 and was signed by then-governor Tim Kaine, who is now a Democrat senator. On October 25, 2006, Virginia’s then-Senior Assistant Attorney General J. Jasen Eige wrote to the federal DOJ, “I submit for your approval pursuant to the Voting Rights Act… changes to the Driver’s License Process in the Commonwealth of Virginia by requiring a declaration of citizenship before a customer is offered the opportunity to register to vote.”
In December, John Tanner, then-chief of the DOJ’s Voting Section, replied, “The Attorney General does not interpose any objection to the specified change.” The letter noted that it did not preclude the possibility of litigation in the future.
Virginia&#8217;s Republican governor Glenn Youngkin told The Daily Wire on Saturday, “We are upholding the Constitution and Virginia law signed 18 years ago by then-governor Tim Kaine. And we now know that the Virginia law was reviewed and expressly approved by the DOJ civil rights division. Now, after being applied for 18 years by both Democrat and Republican governors, with just 25 days before the presidential election, the Biden-Harris DOJ sues Virginia.”
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“Ensuring Virginia’s voter rolls do not include non-citizens is constitutional, it’s the law in Virginia and it’s common sense,” he added. “Non-citizens shouldn’t be on the voter rolls.&#8221;
In September, Democrats threatened to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-rejects-gop-proposal-to-link-bill-requiring-voters-prove-citizenship-with-spending-measure" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shut down the federal government</a> rather than pass a spending bill that included the SAVE Act, which would require voters to prove their citizenship. The Biden-Harris administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-formally-opposes-bill-requiring-voters-prove-citizenship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> that it &#8220;strongly opposes&#8221; the bill because “[it] is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in Federal elections” and “[states] already have effective safeguards in place to verify voters’ eligibility and maintain the accuracy of voter rolls.”
The administration then began blocking states from enforcing those existing laws. In addition to suing Virginia, it sued Alabama for a similar effort.
A 2006 memo from Virginia&#8217;s Department of Motor Vehicles summarized the new process in which people applying for driver&#8217;s licenses would be asked if they are a citizen and, if they said yes, given the opportunity to register to vote. If they said no, that would be transmitted to the state elections board so it could ensure that the person did not unlawfully attempt to register separately.
The U.S. Department of Justice “indicated no concerns with the legislation as written and referred to guidance it provided for a similar process in Maryland,” as well as noting that “the Federal Code explicitly makes it a crime for a non-citizen to vote, or attempt to vote,” the memo said.
This August, Youngkin signed an executive order instructing the Department of Elections to remove “non-citizens who may have purposefully or accidentally registered to vote.” The order said that between January 2022 and July 2024, it identified and removed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-removes-more-than-6000-non-citizens-from-voter-rolls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">6,300 people who were on the rolls despite being identified as non-citizens</a>.
Virginia also entered into data-sharing agreements with other states and identified 79,867 deceased voters and identified registered voters who had moved out of state.
Youngkin won his 2021 race by 63,000 votes, meaning ineligible voters on the voter rolls could conceivably affect the 2024 presidential race, if they actually voted.
But on October 11, the Biden-Harris DOJ announced that its civil rights division was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-harris-admin-files-lawsuit-to-stop-virginia-from-removing-noncitizens-from-voter-rolls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suing the state</a> for removing names from the voter rolls “too close to the Nov. 5 general election.”
It said federal law creates a “Quiet Period” that requires states to “complete systematic programs aimed at removing the names of ineligible voters from voter registration lists no later than 90 days before federal elections.&#8221; Youngkin’s executive order came exactly 90 days before election day and said it would perform daily sweeps of the data moving forward, and required people who registered to vote despite being a noncitizen to be referred for prosecution.
Youngkin said, “Virginia’s election will be secure and fair, and I will not stand idly by as this politically motivated action tries to interfere in our elections, period.”
The DOJ&#8217;s lawsuit acknowledges that Youngkin’s plan was based on people explicitly telling the DMV that they were not citizens, and that it did not remove then from the rolls unless they failed to provide evidence that it was a mistake within 14 days.
The suit said that the notice sent to voters reads: “[w]e have received information that you indicated on a recent DMV application that you are not a citizen of the United States. If the information provided was correct, you are not eligible to vote. If the information is incorrect and you are a citizen of the United States, please complete the Affirmation of Citizenship form and return it using the enclosed envelope. If you do not respond within 14 days, you will be removed from the list of registered voters.&#8221;
Nonetheless, it said the process was a burden that could lead to people who are actually citizens having their registration cancelled.
In August, Fairfax County, for example, removed 28 registered voters who apparently identified themselves as noncitizens and did not respond to a mailer asking them to explain the discrepancy.

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Virginia Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/glenn-youngkin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Glenn Youngkin</a> defended his decision to remove non-citizens from the state&#8217;s voter rolls in accordance with state law that was passed by Democrats, saying that doing so was &#8220;common sense.&#8221;
Youngkin made the remarks during an interview with CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper this week in response to the Biden-Harris administration filing a lawsuit to stop Youngkin from removing non-citizens from the rolls within 90 days of an election.
&#8220;First and foremost, this is a law that&#8217;s been on our books since 2006,&#8221; Youngkin said. &#8220;It was a law that was signed by then Democrat Governor Tim Kaine, and it requires our election process and governors to use DMV data when an individual self-identifies as a non-citizen and there is a match with that person on the voter rolls to then notify that person that they have 14 days to affirm that they&#8217;re a citizen or not, and if they&#8217;re not, then they are removed.&#8221;
&#8220;This process has been in place since 2006. We just had recent Democrat governors like Terry McAuliffe and Ralph Northam use this exact same process within the 90-day period because it is individualized,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;An individual starts the process by self-identifying as a non-citizen. And therefore, as governor, I have an obligation, no discretion, to then run the process to notify that person through our registrar that they have 14 days to clear it up. And if they don&#8217;t clear it up, they&#8217;re gonna be removed from the voter rolls.&#8221;
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Youngkin noted that the Biden-Harris administration could have filed their lawsuit against the state months ago so that it could be brought to a resolution before Election Day, but instead waited more than two months to file it.
&#8220;This seems far more political than otherwise simply because of the fact this has been going on since 2006 according to law and they chose 25 days before an election in Virginia in order to assert something which really is inconsistent with the process that we&#8217;re doing,&#8221; he said.
Youngkin said that the state has removed more than 6,300 non-citizens from the voter rolls, people who self-identified as non-citizens and were given weeks to affirm if they were citizens so they could be added back to the voter rolls.
The governor pushed back on Tapper&#8217;s efforts to frame the effort as a &#8220;purging program,&#8221; saying that it&#8217;s &#8220;anything but a purging program.&#8221;
&#8220;It begins with someone identifying themselves as a non-citizen,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;Do you think that non-citizens, when they&#8217;ve [themselves] identified as a non-citizen should stay on the voter roll and therefore be in a position to potentially vote in a presidential election?&#8221;
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WATCH: Glenn Youngkin is a strong voice for common sense:
Noncitizens should not remain on the voter rolls. <a href="https://t.co/kZ81PnTfZi">pic.twitter.com/kZ81PnTfZi</a>
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1846349547263688800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2024</a></blockquote>

Youngkin Defends Virginia Removing Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls: ‘This Is Common Sense’

The Biden-Harris administration announced on Friday that it was filing a lawsuit against the state of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia</a> for enforcing voter integrity laws in the state that aim to curb illegal voting in elections.
Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, who has a history of espousing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-nominee-to-lead-doj-civil-rights-division-wrote-in-letter-melanin-endows-blacks-with-greater-abilities">racist views</a>, claimed without evidence that Virginia&#8217;s move to increase election integrity was an &#8220;eleventh hour effort&#8221; intended, in part, to &#8220;disenfranchise qualified voters.&#8221;
The DOJ claimed that it was doing so because it was &#8220;too close to the Nov. 5 general election&#8221; to remove voters:
<blockquote>Section 8(c)(2) of the NVRA, also known as the Quiet Period Provision, requires states to complete systematic programs aimed at removing the names of ineligible voters from voter registration lists no later than 90 days before federal elections.</blockquote>
However, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s executive order requiring that non-citizens be removed from voter rolls was signed on August 7, 2024 — exactly 90 days before Election Day.
The problem is the people who are being removed from the voter rolls are not, in fact, voters because they are not citizens, said Youngkin.
&#8220;With less than 30 days until the election, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice is filing an unprecedented lawsuit against me and the Commonwealth of Virginia, for appropriately enforcing a 2006 law signed by Democrat Tim Kaine that requires Virginia to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls &#8211; a process that starts with someone declaring themselves a non-citizen and then registering to vote,&#8221; Youngkin said.
Youngkin said that the lawsuit was a &#8220;desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections in the Commonwealth, the very crucible of American Democracy.&#8221;
&#8220;With the support of our Attorney General, we will defend these commonsense steps, that we are legally required to take, with every resource available to us,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Virginia’s election will be secure and fair, and I will not stand idly by as this politically motivated action tries to interfere in our elections, period.&#8221;

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Biden-Harris Admin Files Lawsuit To Stop Virginia From ‘Removing Noncitizens From Voter Rolls’

Virginia and Maryland share a border, a climate, and a proximity to Washington, D.C. But only one has a Republican governor—and it&#8217;s outperforming the other on a number of important metrics.
A letter from Virginia Secretary of Finance Stephen E. Cummings comparing the commonwealth’s finances to those of its neighbor said that between January 2022 and June 2024, Virginia added 259,000 jobs, while Maryland added only 73,000, making it last in the nation.
When it comes to the number of net inbound U-Hauls — which suggests the rate of people moving to the state — Virginia ranked 10th, while Maryland ranked 44th.
Cummings&#8217;s letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Daily Wire,  was addressed to a Democrat state senator who had requested the comparison.
The letter said under Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Virginia has built up its cash reserves, or rainy day fund, ending fiscal year 2024 with a $1.2 billion surplus and ending 2023 with $3 billion more than forecast. 
Meanwhile, a spending crisis looms on the horizon for Maryland, whose operations were unsustainable and only made possible by draining its existing rainy day fund. 
“The Comptroller of Maryland issued an economic report for 2023 that sounded an alarm for their economic situation,” the letter said. “The Maryland General Assembly adopted a budget in which FY 2025 general fund spending was more than $1.4 billion below FY 2024 levels, the vast majority of this reduced spending was in capital outlay and relied on withdrawals from the state’s Rainy Day Fund to support ongoing spending,” it said. 
“The Maryland Department of Legislative Services estimates that ‘ongoing spending exceeds ongoing revenues in fiscal year 2025 by $485 million. The structural deficit increases to $1.7 billion in fiscal year 2026 and reaches over $3 billion by fiscal year 2028,” it said.
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Bond rating service Moody’s downgraded Maryland to a “negative outlook” in May, writing that “The negative outlook incorporates difficulties Maryland will face to achieve balanced financial operations in coming years without sacrificing service delivery goals or adding to the weight of the state government’s burden on individual and corporate taxpayers.”
“There are clear winners and losers in the US economy over the past decade and, in particular, after the pandemic,&#8221; Cummings wrote. &#8220;Lower cost, business friendly states have captured the vast majority of domestic migration at the expense of higher cost, less attractive business environments leading to growth in population, economies and state revenues available to fund programs while further reducing tax burdens on individuals and companies.”
The comparison suggests that even when it comes to enjoying government services, big-spending Democrat states might be worse off in the long-run, with out-of-control costs eventually coming due. Maryland was forced to cut $1.3 billion from its transportation funding due to its budget crisis, the letter said.
Virginia is a typically Democrat-leaning state that elected Youngkin in 2021. The former business executive is limited to a single term under the state’s constitution, but his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-lt-gov-winsome-earle-sears-files-to-run-for-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lieutenant governor, Winsome Sears</a>, announced her campaign for governor this month.
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Economics

Maryland

Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin ripped the Biden-Harris administration on Thursday after it was revealed that a man arrested in the commonwealth for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-charged-after-allegedly-chaining-up-children-inside-va-home-is-previously-deported-illegal-immigrant-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allegedly chaining up children</a> inside a home is a previously deported illegal immigrant.
Franklin Viera Guevara, 29, an El Salvador native, was arrested in Fairfax County, Virginia, last month and charged with two counts of child neglect, two counts of child cruelty, and two counts of abduction. Police said they found two boys — ages 7 and 9 — chained up inside the home of Guevara&#8217;s girlfriend, 47-year-old girlfriend Wedni Del Cid Rodriguez, who is the boys&#8217; mother.
Fox News&#8217; Bill Melugin reported on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that Guevara was deported in 2019 under the Trump administration before illegally making his way back into the U.S. &#8220;at an unknown date.&#8221;
&#8220;Another despicable crime committed by an illegal immigrant who is not supposed to be here. Too many innocent Virginians have suffered under the open border policies of the Biden-Harris Administration. Local officials in Fairfax County must uphold their duty to cooperate with ICE and keep Virginians safe. Enough is enough,&#8221; Youngkin wrote on X in response to the news. &#8220;Prosecute this criminal to the fullest extent of the law and deport him.&#8221;
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Another despicable crime committed by an illegal immigrant who is not supposed to be here. Too many innocent Virginians have suffered under the open border policies of the Biden-Harris Administration. Local officials in Fairfax County must uphold their duty to cooperate with ICE… <a href="https://t.co/OIUlGCeIjz">https://t.co/OIUlGCeIjz</a>
— Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/GlennYoungkin/status/1831783904455598336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The illegal immigrant suspect in the case is currently being held at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center on no bond, Fox 5 D.C. <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/woman-boyfriend-charged-after-2-children-found-chained-up-fairfax-county-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Guevara and his girlfriend Rodriguez allegedly told officers that they kept the children chained up to “scare them” and prevent them from leaving the apartment. Guevara also allegedly said that the couple would leave the young boys alone, chained up in the apartment. According to court documents, one of the boys got ahold of a phone and sent a photo of his chained ankle to their sister, and the sister called the police.
Rodriguez was also arrested and charged with two counts of child neglect, two counts of child cruelty, and two counts of abduction. She was released on bond after her arrest.
Last month, an illegal immigrant from Bolivia — who had been apprehended at the southern border and then released — was arrested in Virginia and charged with seven counts of possession of child porn and possession of obscene material with a minor, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-migrant-caught-released-border-convicted-sex-crimes-virginia-child" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) said that 36-year-old Jose Fabricio Veizaga-Vargas is also a convicted sex offender &#8220;who victimized a minor in Northern Virginia.&#8221;
After his conviction, Veizaga-Vargas was sentenced to six months in prison, but his sentence was suspended. The ERO said that after his sentence was suspended, the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center refused to honor an ICE detainer request and released him from custody.

Youngkin Blasts Biden-Harris Admin’s ‘Open Border Policies’ After Illegal Immigrant Arrested For Allegedly Chaining Up Children

Youngkin Blasts Biden-Harris Admin's 'Open Border Policies' After Illegal Immigrant Arrested For Allegedly Chaining Up Children

Border Crisis

Crime

Virginia Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears filed paperwork on Wednesday to run for governor in 2025, seeking to continue the GOP&#8217;s control of the governor&#8217;s mansion as sitting Gov. Glenn Youngkin is limited to one term.
Earle-Sears&#8217; filing makes her the first Republican candidate to jump into the 2025 governor&#8217;s race in the commonwealth, ABC 8 <a href="https://www.wric.com/news/politics/local-election-hq/lt-gov-winsome-earle-sears-files-paperwork-to-run-for-virginia-governor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), who entered the race last November, is currently the only Democratic candidate running for governor.
The lieutenant governor announced she would hold a rally in Virginia Beach on Thursday at 6:00 p.m. ET.
Earle-Sears rode a wave of Republican victories in Virginia in 2021, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2021/results/virginia/lieutenant-governor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">winning</a> her race for lieutenant governor over Democrat Hala Ayala by just over 50,000 votes. Republicans swept the statewide office elections in 2021, with Youngkin winning the gubernatorial election by more than 60,000 votes and Attorney General Jason Miyares winning his election by 26,000.
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Virginia law limits the governor&#8217;s and lieutenant governor&#8217;s time in office to one four-year term before they must step aside until the next election or run for a different position. Before Youngkin&#8217;s victory in 2021, Democrats had won four of the previous five gubernatorial elections in the commonwealth.
Earle-Sears, an immigrant from Jamaica, served in the U.S. Marines before being elected to the Virginia General Assembly in an upset over a 20-year Democratic incumbent in 2001. During her time as lieutenant governor, Earle-Sears has caught the ire of Democrats and the legacy media on multiple occasions.
In June 2023, Earle-Sears, who is black, slammed President Joe Biden&#8217;s appointment of Ketanji Brown-Jackson to the Supreme Court, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/winsome-sears-calls-ketanji-brown-jackson-a-diversity-hire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, &#8220;Well, what you have is a justice who was chosen because she’s black and because she’s a woman.&#8221;
Earlier this year, Earle-Sears <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-democrats-derail-hearing-after-lt-gov-winsome-sears-says-yes-sir-to-transgender-senator" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to a Democrat male state senator who identifies as a woman by saying, &#8220;Yes, sir.&#8221; The state senator, Danica Roem, stormed out of the room after Earle-Sears&#8217; comment. Upon returning, Roem refused to speak after being recognized by Earle-Sears.
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&#8220;I said something that upset Sen. Roem. Let it be known I am not here to upset anyone,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I am here to do the job that the people of Virginia have called me to do and that is to treat everyone with respect and dignity. I myself have at times not been afforded that same respect and dignity, but in this body and as long as I am president of the Senate and by the grace of God, I will be treated with respect and dignity and I will treat everyone else with respect and dignity.&#8221;

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