The Governor of Texas makes “crystal clear” only North citizens -Americans can vote in state elections

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed on Monday the legislation that said that it “crystalls” that only North -American citizens can vote in the elections of their state.

“I have just signed a joint resolution to leave the clear by the Constitution of Texas that, if you are not a citizen of the United States of America, you do not have permission to vote in Texas,” the governor said in a video published in X.

Texas State Senator Brian Birdwell, Republican, introduced the joint resolution of the Senate (SJR) 37 in January, and in the resolution proposed a constitutional modification that clarified that voters in the Texas elections must be citizens of the United States.

Prior to the resolution, the Constitution banned people under the age of 18, along with those who were mentally decided by a court or who were convicted of a crime, to vote in the election.

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But the amendment proposes to add a line to the classes of people who “will not be allowed to vote” in Texas, who says, “people who are not citizens of the United States”.

Birdwell’s joint resolution was approved by the State Senate in April, and then by the State Chamber in May.

Abbott signed the joint resolution on Monday, but still has another step. In fact, the citizens of Texas will have the final definition in November as to whether the state constitution can be ratified to include the requirement in the constitution of the State.

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Fox News Digital has contacted the ABBOTT and Birdwell offices for comments.

Last month, a Federal Judge blocked an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, which would require the citizen’s documentary test before leaving to be registered to vote.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the United States District Court for the Columbia district issued the order in response to the demands filed by three separate groups of applicants in five different provisions in an executive order of March 25 related to electoral integrity. While Kollar-Kotelly dismissed applications for blocking three of the provisions, applications were granted to block two other provisions related to a citizen test for voters.

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The first blocked provision sought to force the election attendance commission to modify the National Register of standardized voters to require the documentary test of the citizenry. The second sought to require the federal agencies to offer the voters’ registration to people with public assistance to “evaluate” the person’s state of citizenship before doing it.

“Our Constitution trusts Congress and States, not the President, with the authority to regulate the federal elections. In line with this allocation of power, Congress was currently discussing legislation that would affect many of the changes that the President intends to order,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote, a postponement of Clinton. “No legal delegation of authority in the executive branch allows the President the deliberative process of the Congress of short circuit in executive order.”

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In the meantime, 25 states, including Texas, are studying some form of cycling legislation, according to the voting rights laboratory, which follows this legislation. In total, 15 state constitutions have explicit prohibitions against non -citizen vote.

Fox News Digital Alec Schemmel contributed to this report.