Passage of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act will not save the Republican Party from losing the House of Representatives in 2026, as President Donald Trump claims. But it is a reasonable and desirable constitutional reform that would help restore faith in elections. It deserves a vote on the Senate floor.

According to the best estimates available, there were about 16 million illegal immigrants in the country when Trump took office, some 6 million of them having entered during President Joe Biden’s maladministration. The Trump administration claims it has deported some 600,000 and that another 1.9 million have left voluntarily, meaning the illegal population now hovers around 13.5 million.