''California is going to be a
Hispanic state," said Mario Obeldo, former head of MALDEF. "Anyone
who does not like it should leave."
The letter notes that the percentage in L.A. County may be as high as 144%.
Salvadoran Illegal Immigrant Indicted for Alleged Voter Fraud in Texas
A Salvadoran
national, who Texas prosecutors say has been living illegally in the state
since the 1980s, was indicted by a federal grand jury for alleged voter fraud
and other immigration violations.
On Friday, Joseph Brown, U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, announced that Mario Obdulio
Orellana, 57, was named in a five-count indictment earlier in June. The feds
charged him with two counts of false representation of U.S. citizenship, giving
a false statement in a passport application, the unauthorized use of a Social
Security number, and voter fraud.
Orellana allegedly entered the U.S. illegally from El Salvador
in the early 1980s, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. In 1987,
while illegally residing in Shelby County, Texas, Orellana purportedly
falsified documents to obtain a birth certificate that showed he was born in
the United States. He then applied for and received a U.S. passport and a
Social Security number. Prosecutors said Orellana also claimed to be a U.S.
citizen when registering to vote and cast a fraudulent ballot in the November
2016 presidential election.
Orellana made an initial
appearance in federal court on Thursday. His sentencing will be set after the
completion of a pre-sentence investigation by the U.S. Probation Office. He
faces up to a maximum of 10 years in federal prison.
The issue of voter fraud, including illegal voting by
noncitizens, remains a growing concern in the Lone Star State. Last year,
Texas tried Rosa Maria Ortega, a Mexican national, for
voting illegally in elections over a decade. She falsely claimed U.S.
citizenship and voted as a Republican at least five times in Dallas County.
This included the November 2012 general election and a May 2014 primary
run-off. During her trial, Ortega said she thought she was an American citizen
when she was only a U.S. legal permanent resident, which rendered her
ineligible to vote. A judge sentenced her to eight years in prison for “illegal
voting” under Texas law.
In 2018, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said his office will prosecute Laura Janeth Garza,
a Mexican national indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury on two counts of
election fraud for illegally voting in 2016, 2012, and 2004. Garza purportedly
stole the identity of a U.S. citizen who resides in Texas. The suspect secured
a U.S. passport and registered to vote in Harris County. This situation
surfaced when the alleged victim applied for her own passport.
In March, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a
national election integrity law firm, filed a lawsuit against Harris
County for allegedly failing to disclose noncitizen voter records as required
by the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993, also known as the “Motor
Voter” law. Breitbart Texas reported Paxton urged a state court judge in a
separate lawsuit to facilitate the PILF’s request after Harris County sued over
a ruling that noncitizen records should not be disclosed–contrary to the
Attorney General’s published opinion on the matter.
The organization took to
Twitter to comment on the Obdulio Orellana case, arguing that it’s another
example for why states should implement “citizenship verification” in the voter
registration system.
Mario Obdulio
Orellana #voterfraud case: It’s not unheard of for
illegal immigrants (and their smugglers) to allegedly use the voter
registration system as a tool to obtain legal documents for fraudulent
purposes. Yet another reason we need citizenship verification in voting.
In April, state
Senator Don Huffines (R-Dallas) wrote to Dallas County election officials
questioning if they complied with state law and election codes that call for
“monthly compilation of a list of noncitizens registered to vote” and the
purging of these illegal voters from the rolls.
Breitbart Texas reported:
The letter also referenced a
four-county survey conducted by the Office of the Attorney General, revealing
165 “unlawfully registered noncitizen voters” were removed from the voter rolls
but prior to identifying themselves as noncitizens at jury duty, this group of
165 cast 100 illegal votes in Texas elections.
More recently, Texas AG Ken
Paxton noted “the process for removing ineligible voters who self-report as
noncitizens at jury duty is not being followed correctly, or even at all in
various counties.”
Huffines pledged to file
legislation that verifies the citizenship of “every single applicant who
registers to vote” when the state legislature convenes in 2019.
Follow Merrill Hope, a member
of the original Breitbart Texas team, on Twitter.
Mexican National Indicted in Election Fraud
Case
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Mexican national impersonated a U.S. citizen and voted three times in Texas elections,
according to a criminal indictment handed
down last week. The case adds more fuel to concerns about noncitizens on American voting rolls.
Laura Janeth Garza is charged with voter impersonation and
ineligible voting, both second-degree felonies. If convicted, she faces two to
20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
A joint investigation by Texas Attorney General Paxton’s
office and the state Department of Public Safety (DPS) determined that Garza
obtained documents to steal the identity of a U.S. citizen and illegally
register to vote in Harris County. She cast ballots there in 2004, 2012 and the
2016 presidential election.
Garza’s case came to light when a citizen attempted to
obtain a U.S. passport, only to discover that Garza had already done so using
the woman’s identity. The U.S. State Department referred Garza’s case to the
Criminal Investigations Division of DPS, which ultimately handed it over to
Paxton’s office for an election fraud investigation.
The Garza affair gives more ammunition to an ongoing legal
tussle over voter-registration records in Harris County (Houston).
“A Mexican national stands accused of impersonating a U.S. citizen
and voting three times—largely thanks to a broken honor system which local
officials do not feel compelled to answer for,” said J. Christian Adams,
president and general counsel at the Public Interest Legal Foundation.
PILF has a pending federal lawsuit seeking Harris County
voter-registration records of individuals who have been found to be
noncitizens. Last week, PILF countered Harris County’s claim in a state court that the group had
no right to the data. PILF is seeking access to voter-registration records
before the 2018 midterm elections.
Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993
allows individuals to request inspection or seek copies of “records concerning
the implementation of programs and activities conducted for the purpose of
ensuring accuracy and
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