It is too late for the SAVE America Act to save this year

Published August 3, 2026 5:00am ET | Updated August 3, 2026 9:01am ET



Estimates vary, but even after President Donald Trump’s deportations, somewhere between 10 and 18 million illegal immigrants still live in the United States, and as Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s (D-NJ) announcement last week shows, thousands of them are illegally voting in our elections.

The Washington Examiner has editorialized in support of the SAVE America Act before, going so far as to endorse the use of the Senate’s Rule 19 to defeat a talking filibuster.

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