Announcing the launch of a tip line for citizens who believe they are witnessing illegal electoral activity, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton penned a tongue twister. In a press release, he argued that the “significant growth of the noncitizen population in Texas and a pattern of partisan efforts to illegally weaponize voter registration and the voting process to manipulate electoral outcomes have created urgent risks to local, state, and federal elections.” The statement was characteristically short on precision. By “noncitizen population,” Paxton likely refers to undocumented immigrants, not legal residents, who’ve made up roughly the same percentage of the state’s population since early in the Trump administration. But according to data published by the Pew Research Center in July, the population of undocumented Texans peaked in…
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