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Mike Lee: “Our existing laws, as interpreted and as implemented, make…”

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 26:40

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. It's the whole reason we had to, because Our existing laws, as interpreted and as implemented, make it impossible to find out where this [noncitizen voting] is happening. We can't enforce existing law, at least not existing law within states that number one, refuse voluntarily to come forward and share their voter registration file data with DHS to … (26:40–26:50)

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Asserts that current laws make it impossible to identify instances of noncitizen voting.

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