Saturday, July 18, 2026

Five claims the president made in primetime address not backed up by evidence

…The Department of Homeland Security did not reveal its methodology for identifying the noncitizens and how confident they were in their assessment. The tool the Department of Homeland Security uses to flag noncitizens on the voter rolls is known to be inaccurate. 

Letters from the Department of Homeland Security sent on Thursday to Nevada and Pennsylvania obtained by the Guardian also suggest that the government is much less certain that the people identified are actually noncitizens. The Nevada letter says the department identified as many as 15,903 noncitizens who were registered to vote, including 8,576 whose name, date of birth, address and social security number matched that of a noncitizen in its files. It did not say how it flagged the remaining potential noncitizens. .

“These numbers are wildly speculative at best and the Department of Homeland Security hasn’t shared anything that backs it up,” Cisco Aguilar, the Democratic Nevada secretary of state, said in a statement…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/trump-claims-primetime-address


 

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