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He\u2019s fighting hard to restrict mail voting<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trump is trying to make mail voting difficult for many Americans, despite its safety and popularity. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s what happened under President Donald Trump and his administration this week that you might have missed.<\/p>

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For years, Trump has railed against mail-in voting, falsely blaming mail-in voting for his 2020 loss. \u201cMail-in voting means mail-in cheating,\u201d he declared in March, despite having voted by mail himself <\/a>that same month.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s trying to severely restrict a practice that experts stress is secure and has grown in popularity<\/a> since the pandemic. He\u2019s launched a multi-pronged approach to do this:<\/p>\n

In Congress: <\/b>Republicans in Congress are considering legislation pushed by Trump to dramatically change how people cast ballots<\/a>, including requiring anyone voting by mail to first show up in person and provide proof of citizenship, arguably defeating the purpose.<\/p>\n

In the courts<\/b>: The Supreme Court is considering whether states can count mail ballots<\/a> that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive afterward, a case that could force changes before November.<\/p>\n

By executive order:<\/b> Trump issued an executive order earlier this year trying to greatly limit <\/a>who can receive mailed ballots. Presidents don\u2019t have control over how elections are run; the Constitution grants that authority to states and Congress.<\/p>\n

This week, a federal judge in D.C. appointed by Trump ruled the executive order can stay in place<\/a> for now, saying nothing has happened yet to actually restrict mail voting.<\/p>\n

But there are multiple lawsuits on this executive order, and courts have already blocked Trump\u2019s efforts to require proof of citizenship<\/a> to register to vote.<\/p>\n

The FBI is also seizing or trying to get ballots from states that Trump lost in 2020, including some mailed ballots in Wisconsin<\/a> that has raised concerns from voting experts that voter-identifying information could be shared.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had mail voting since the Civil War,\u201d said David Becker, a former Justice Department voting rights attorney and head of the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation & Research, \u201cand we know it\u2019s secure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, the Trump administration announced a seismic change to immigration policy: most immigrants who apply for a green card \u2014 or permanent residency in the U.S. \u2014 will need to return to their country of origin<\/a> first. This week, immigration officials started asking applicants<\/a> why they hadn\u2019t returned home.<\/p>\n

This new rule appears designed to put pressure on applicants who came to the U.S. on tourist or student visas, overstayed them and later met the requirements for a green card (like being sponsored by a company, university or marrying a U.S. citizen).<\/p>

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\u201cTheir visit should not function as the first step in the Green Card process,\u201d U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Zach Kahler said in a statement last week of those who arrive on tourist or student visas first.<\/p>\n

Opponents argue that\u2019s an inflexible reading of how people come to the United States that will greatly limit legal migration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis ignores the realities of life,\u201d argues<\/a> David Bier, the director of immigration studies at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute. \u201cPeople come as students, and then they get a permanent job offer. People come to visit friends, and then they get a marriage proposal. People come for whatever reason, and their country is taken over by someone who will persecute them.\u201d<\/p>\n

This change comes on top of a travel ban to 39 countries<\/a>, deep restrictions<\/a> on refugee admissions while prioritizing White South Africans<\/a>, harsh treatment<\/a> of some arriving migrants and scrutiny of how a mother was deported without her American toddler, who was placed with an `family member and later killed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Republicans are winning the gerrymander wars. But they had two notable setbacks this week in the South.<\/p>\n

In South Carolina, several Republican lawmakers joined with Democrats in the state legislature to block a map that would have eliminated its only majority-Black congressional district. The conservative pushback appeared more about timing than eliminating the only district in the state represented by a Democrat. Early voting for primaries had already started.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Carolina citizens are going to the polls today,” Republican state Sen. Richard Cash said. “And neither my conscience or common sense is going to let me stop an election that is already underway.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alabama Republicans are locked in a legal battle that goes back years on whether to create a second congressional district out of seven total where Black voters can elect their preferred candidate. Now, emboldened by the Supreme Court making it easier<\/a> to gerrymander by race, they are trying to eliminate one a court ordered them to draw.<\/p>\n

The practice is still technically illegal, and this week, a federal court found the Alabama map violated even a watered-down Voting Rights Act. Alabama Republicans are now asking the Supreme Court to weigh in and allow their map to stand for November\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n

But the gerrymandering wars are just beginning<\/a>, and Black members of Congress told <\/a>The Washington Post\u2019s Anna Liss-Roy<\/a> they are trying to find ways to respond before many of them could lose their seats in the coming years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need a massive voter turnout,” said Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-New York), the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. \u201cThis is not a time to yield to voter suppression.\u201d<\/p>

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