Texas is suing the Biden-Harris regime for refusing to verify the citizenship of nearly half a million registered voters.

The state's attorney general, Ken Paxton (R), says the Department of Homeland Security and its secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, have ignored "valid requests" in violation of federal law.

The lawsuit names the DHS, Mayorkas, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and its director Ur Jaddou.

Over 450,000 people on the voter rolls were never verified because they did not use a Texas-issued driver's license or ID card to register, Paxton says.

DHS refuses to verify

Paxton's lawsuit argues the status of these voters cannot be confirmed with "existing resources," but the DHS has ignored requests for verification.

In an Oct. 7 letter to Jaddou, Paxton wrote, "Although I have no doubt the vast majority of the voters on the list are citizens who are eligible to vote, I am equally certain that Texans have no way of knowing whether or not any of the voters on the list are noncitizens who are ineligible to vote."

The feds ignored Paxton's letter, while providing a dismissive response to Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson.

USCIS director Jaddou pointed to an existing program, Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE), while insisting the DHS will "not provide an alternative process to any state."

Catch-22

Paxton says the feds are ignoring their legal obligations by "pointing to" SAVE, which by itself is an inadequate tool to "verify the citizenship status of an individual on the voter rolls."

The system requires the use of a "unique DHS-issued immigration identifier," but Texas does not maintain that information and there is no way for Texas to obtain it for registered voters who never applied for a state ID or driver's license.

In short, the feds have placed Texas in a Catch-22.

"Although federal and state law prohibit non-citizens from voting, federal law paradoxically creates opportunities for non-citizens to illegally register to vote while prohibiting States from requiring voters to have proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections — a common sense measure to identify illegal registration," the suit says.

Democrats have dismissed concerns about non-citizens voting as exaggerated, but many states do not require ID to cast a ballot, and the Biden-Harris DOJ is taking legal action against states, like Virginia, that are trying to ensure only citizens vote.