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Mike Lee: “Existing law, including but not limited to laws codified at…”

Featuring: Mike Lee, Republican | U.S. Senate from Utah

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Sen. Lee Stands for SAVE America Act: March 21st

Published | Video Starts at 03:02

Waste, fraud and abuse. Or it's easy, let's just enforce existing law. So this was his argument was that we can just enforce existing law because Existing law, including but not limited to laws codified at 18 USC 1015, prohibit noncitizens from voting in US elections. So let's just enforce it. That's the whole darn point, Madam President. That's the whole reason why Chip Roy and I wrote the Save America act in the first place. (03:02–03:37)

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Asserts that current U.S. law prohibits noncitizens from voting in elections.

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