Defendants Fight Trump Deportations as Noncitizen Voting Law Faces Major Threat

Noncitizen voters challenge efforts to deport — allege Voting By Aliens statute unconstitutional

Noncitizen voters are working to avoid deportation by challenging the federal government’s authority to prosecute their cases. At least five noncitizen voters prosecuted in separate cases in Florida and Wisconsin allege that a 1996 Voting by Aliens statute enacted three decades ago that federal officials are using to deport them is unconstitutional, and they’re asking judges to dismiss their cases ahead of trials set to begin next month, Reuters…

Defendants fight Trump deportations as noncitizen voting law faces major threat

Five people being prosecuted in separate federal cases in Miami and Madison, Wisconsin, have argued for the first time in court that the 1996 law used to charge them is unconstitutional

Noncitizens accused of illegal US voting challenge Trump's authority to prosecute them

WILMINGTON, Delaware, Sept 15 - As U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to crack down on what he says is widespread illegal voting by noncitizens, several people charged with that crime are trying a novel strategy to get their cases dropped. Read more at straitstimes.com.