Peters and other senators call the alleged DHS voter searches alarming
U.S. senator and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; lead signatory
“If true, this is just another alarming effort by the Department to use data that USCIS materials admit may be inaccurate”
Source and context
Official statement
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Signed letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, dated September 25 and posted September 28. It describes allegations that staff were told to impersonate voters and demands records and an end to the initiative.
Before the quotation
The signed letter describes the whistleblower's allegation that USCIS personnel were told to use personal information to impersonate voters on state websites.
After the quotation
Peters and the other signatories demanded information about the initiative and called for DHS to cease the activities described in the letter.
How this statement is classified
Case context: Did DHS direct officers to misrepresent themselves to search state voter records?
The label describes this statement’s response within the context above.
Why this label?
The signed letter explicitly makes its negative judgment conditional on the whistleblower allegation being true.
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