Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin stood before the cameras last month and announced what he cast as a bombshell.
“We’ve identified 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in just four states,” Mullin told reporters.
The Department of Homeland Security said it reached that figure by comparing public voter rolls in Nevada, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and California with federal immigration records. Mullin presented the results as hard evidence supporting President Donald Trump’s long-running, unsubstantiated claims of widespread noncitizen voting.
“One thing that I love about numbers, and I love about facts, is they don’t lie,” Mullin said.
But in Nevada, the numbers thus far do not show what DHS publicly claimed they do.
In July, the department said it…
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