Trump claims 'millions of illegal immigrants' are being registered to vote, rated 'Pants on Fire' by PolitiFact

President Trump claimed that 'millions of illegal immigrants' are being registered to vote by Democrats to steal elections. PolitiFact rated this claim 'Pants on Fire,' their most extreme rating for false statements. The evidence directly contradicts Trump's claims: Noncitizen voting has been federally illegal since 1996. State audits consistently find virtually no noncitizen voting: Georgia identified 20 noncitizens among 8.2 million registered voters (0.0002%); Utah found just 1 noncitizen among 2.1 million voters; Iowa found 35 total cases over an entire decade among 1.6 million voters. A Brennan Center study of 23.5 million votes cast in 2016 found only about 30 suspected noncitizen votes. Even Trump's own Voter Fraud Commission, created after he claimed millions voted illegally in 2016, was disbanded in 2018 after finding no evidence of widespread fraud. Immigration experts note that noncitizens face severe consequences for illegal voting including deportation and criminal charges, creating powerful disincentives. The Heritage Foundation's database of election fraud cases, maintained by a conservative organization sympathetic to Trump, contains fewer than 100 documented cases of noncitizen voting nationwide over decades. Despite this overwhelming evidence, Trump's false claims became the primary justification for the SAVE Act, which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register.

"Millions of illegal immigrants are being signed up to vote" — Trump statement about noncitizen voting, rated 'Pants on Fire' by PolitiFact