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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Policy Director at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
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Heritage Foundation’s resident self-titled “deportation scientist,” Mike Howell (perhaps more widely known for his rape threats against furry hackers) is the kind of person that you almost can’t believe is real. But he is very much a real guy with the resources of a big and powerful organization.

Asked about research — including Heritage’s own data — showing how rare noncitizen voting is, he said: “The monumental number of noncitizens that have poured over our borders since 2021 have made any previous ‘study’ of noncitizens’ voting irrelevant.”
In a July interview on Real America’s Voice, a right-wing podcast network, Mr. Howell said that out of 40 people his investigators spoke to at an apartment complex in Charlotte, N.C., four said they were both registered to vote and not citizens. That led the Oversight Project to conclude that 10 percent of noncitizens in that state were most likely registered to vote.
Mr. Howell claimed the Biden administration was planning to “refuse a peaceful transition of power by relying on illegal aliens to vote for them, and that’s clear as day.”
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UJjemw58.bsky.social

Looks like the sort of guy the 2A crowd have been warning everyone about for decades. However, said 2A crowd seem to be maintaining a deafening silence on this particular issue of potential state overreach. Weird, huh? Almost like it’s like they don’t believe what they say 2A is actually about….

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BLalwayserked.bsky.social

I'm sure the interviewers' heavy confirmation bias didn't keep them from forcing the residents to actually prove their voting status. And there's no way anything was misunderstood from these primarily Spanish-speaking interviewees.

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Nnxptvne.bsky.social

Someone make him take the research methods class I’m in I’m BEGGING because 40 is not a big enough sample size for a legit study 😭

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Right wing money continues to gum up works and muddy waters.

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12milegeo.bsky.social

My statistics training is quite old, but 40 people in one location doesn't even qualify as a representative sample. And not nearly large enough to draw a conclusion from. Not to mention questions about bias on the part of the surveyor. In short - garbage.

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JCjcdescy.bsky.social

I would answer the same way, when someone asked me these questions. I'm a non-citizen where I live. I'm also registered to vote -- in the country I'm a citizen of.

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Mmutable.bsky.social

“refuse a peaceful transition of power by relying on illegal aliens to vote” really sounds like some straight up authoritarian takeover stuff.

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Notice, too, how they try to invert the "peaceful transition of power" language so as to neutralize anyone accurately remembering what their guy did to get disqualified from office.

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PSpatriciashannon.bsky.social

Yeah, like we should believe that someone here illegally is going to admit it to some random stranger.

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RDmathandstuff.bsky.social

I wonder how many buildings they had to try before they found this one.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Policy Director at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
2.1k followers289 following1.3k posts