Preserving and protecting the ability of American citizens to participate fully in our democratic system is one of the most important duties of Congress. That requires ensuring that aliens — whether they are here legally or illegally — are not unlawfully registering and voting, raising and spending money to support or oppose candidates and referenda, and distorting and diluting the representation of citizens by being included in apportionment and redistricting in federal, state, and local elections.
While there is a great deal that the states can do to protect their citizens from alien interference in the election process, many of the responsibilities for accomplishing those objectives reside with Congress due to its authority over all aliens under the naturalization clause.
Alien Registration and Voting
What do the following aliens have in common? All of them unlawfully registered and voted in North Carolina before they were caught and removed from the rolls:
Alessandro Cannizzaro (Italy), Roberto Hernandez-Cuarenta (Mexico), Jose Cruz Solano-Rodriguez (Mexico), Ramon Esteban Paez-Jerez (Dominican Republic), Jose Jaime Ramiro-Torres (El Salvador), Dieudonne Soifils (Haiti), Guadalupe Espinosa-Pena (Mexico), Maria Rufina Castillo-Boswell (Philippines), Dora Maybe Damata-Rodriguez (Panama), Juan Francisco Landeros-Mireles (Mexico), Hyo Suk George (Korea), Merious Jean (Haiti), Daniel Tadeusz Romanowski (Poland), Diana Patricia Franco-Rodriguez (Mexico), Ruth Elizabeth Bran (Guatemala), Elizabeth Nene Amachaghi (Nigeria), Gabriela Guzman-Miguel (Mexico), Jose Abraham Navarro (Mexico), and Joshua Workman (Canada).
We know that aliens are registering and actually voting, although we do not know the extent of the problem since the vast majority of
