Joy Reid
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I think we should be very alarmed.
It's already passed the House.
And remember that the purpose, the reason the SAVE Act exists is that the right has this ongoing conspiracy theory that they've had for decades, that the only reason Republicans ever lose elections is that there are millions and millions and millions of undocumented immigrants who they call quote unquote illegals voting.
And they are sure these people are voting.
And the illogical part about that is,
If you're in the country undocumented, in order to vote, you have to get documented.
You'd have to go into a DMV, present yourself, give your address, and then give them all the information they need to find you and deport you.
Millions of people are doing that.
I mean, I guess there would be one crazy person might do it, but you're saying,
Millions of people are now outing themselves as undocumented immigrants in order to vote for somebody they probably never heard of.
Because if they're undocumented immigrants, are they really watching the news and paying attention to who the candidates are such that they can go and vote?
So they're saying that's one thing that's happening.
Or they're saying that people are paying these undocumented people to vote.
and then they're or using their using fake they have all these but their own organizations heritage foundation who wrote the project 2025 cato institute right-wing organizations have studied this there is none of this it doesn't happen it is so illogical and stupid it doesn't happen but they think they can fix it by saying everybody in the country now has to present a proof of citizenship to vote but the only proof of citizenship you could possibly get that would be clear
would be either a birth certificate or a passport.
Well, who issues the passports?
The Trump administration.
So you have to go to the Trump administration to get the only document they'll let you bring in to vote.
So what if they say you can't have it or they cancel your passport?
Then you can't vote.