Within 24 hours of Independence Day 2022, Biden's
Department of Justice (DOJ)
announced its plan to sue Arizona for a state law that requires proof of American citizenship to vote in presidential elections.
You read that right: The DOJ is suing Arizona for making sure that people who aren't citizens of the United States don't vote in our elections.
Reasonable Americans may be surprised to learn that the cost of having noncitizens vote in our elections is controversial. Yet from New York City to parts of Maryland, California and
elsewhere across America, liberals are attempting to let noncitizens steer our election results.
Hence the Arizona law. Yet adding insult to injury, Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general for the DOJ's civil rights division, called the Arizona law "a textbook violation" of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act.
The truth is the exact opposite: Not protecting our elections from non-citizens is what hurts the Black community. We have struggled for equal voting rights for as long as we have been American—only to have the Left invoke our fight in the name of extending what is rightfully ours to those who are not citizens.
Average Americans get this.
Support for a voter ID requirement has increased from less than 70 percent of likely U.S. voters in 2018 to 90 percent of
Republicans and 60 percent of
Democrats in 2021. Americans across the board believe that an ID requirement maintains the integrity of our elections—and this includes Americans descended from slaves. In a survey by
Monmouth University Polling Institute, well over 80 percent of non-white participants supported voter ID requirements;
an ANES study found that this included 66 percent of Hispanic respondents, 56 percent of Black respondents, and 61 percent of those who did not self-identify as White, Hispanic, or Black.