citizenship status

Kansas lawmakers say that requiring driver's licenses to list legal status would reduce noncitizen voting — something that is exceedingly rare. One study says suspected cases happen just 0.0001% of the time.

The report uses Kansas and Arizona to illustrate the unforeseen financial costs of executing documentary proof of citizenship laws as they gain traction in Congress and statehouses nationwide.

Ceballos acknowledged having voted in multiple elections in the past.

The Secretary of State's Office didn't initially check with the Department of Public Safety, which collects proof of citizenship from people who register to vote through them.

After the landmark Freedmen citizenship ruling in the Muscogee Nation Supreme Court, the tribal nation's citizenship board petitioned for a rehearing of the case. On Wednesday, the court denied their motion.

A lawyer says Denisse Parra Vargas was stopped last week for having expired tags and told to report to a processing center Tuesday. Her family is now in Mexico.

28-year-old Natalie Zarate spent two decades working towards becoming a citizen after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally as a child. Except now she worries that the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to crack down on immigration and end birthright citizenship could endanger her and her family.

The State Board of Education unanimously advanced an administrative rule change that would require schools to collect citizenship or legal immigration documentation from parents at enrollment.

Hailing from places like Venezuela and South Asia, voters told us political unrest at home taught them the value of a democratic process.

What Paxton will do if the federal government is unable to confirm the citizenship status of some of the voters on that list is unclear. Under federal law, the state can no longer remove people from the voter rolls because it is less than 90 days before a federal election.