U.S. Congressman Clay Higgins, R-Louisiana, is calling for election integrity ahead of the approaching presidential election.

With just three weeks before the Nov. 5 election, Higgins is pushing for tighter measures to safeguard against voter corruption and prevent illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections.

“The Save (Safeguard American Voters Eligibility) Act was a beautiful legislation,” Higgins said speaking during a town hall meeting Wednesday in Jennings. “It quite simply says that illegal aliens with a presence in the United States cannot vote in federal elections. That’s already the law, but in order to enforce that law you’ve got to prove U.S. citizenship (and identity) in order to get a voter registration. That’s it. That’s what the Save Act does.”

Higgins, who co-sponsored the legislation which recently failed to pass in the House, said the integrity of elections are at risk due to President Biden’s open border policies and weak voter registration laws, which could allow millions of non-citizens to vote in elections.

The SAVE Act would require proof of citizenship for voter registration in federal elections and allow states to remove non-citizens from voter rolls.

“I’m an American and I work for Americans,” Higgins said. “We should be protecting American soil, American sovereignty and we should be enforcing American laws. What’s wrong with that?”

Higgins also spoke on what he called a “compromised election cycle” during the November 2020 presidential elections.

“We may never know the full truth of what happened leading up to election day in 2020,” he said. “We may never know what happened in the wee hours of the morning or the day following election day in six of our sovereign states, but a reasonable man can look at what happened and come to a very sober conclusion that it appeared to be coordinated election corruption.”

He bases many of those failures on individual states who did not properly enforce their own election laws.

“We should not be surprised when we witness a corruption of man, but if the corruption of man threatens our Republic we have got to respond and guard against that,” he said.

Polling places this November will be much more disciplined areas of casting ballots, he said. Thousands of observers, including attorneys, will be “watching for the corruption of man to rear its ugly head” during the election and legally challenge it, he said.

Many sovereign states do not want a tightly controlled election, he said.

Louisiana has strict election laws that make it harder for corruption to occur, he said. Voters have to have a photo ID to cast a vote and absentee ballots are only sent to those who request one or qualify, including those on Social Security and deployed military service members.

“In the state of Louisiana, we control the disbursement of absentee ballots so we don’t have a problem with them and we require a photo ID to vote,” he said.

Some states face problems because they send out millions of absentee ballots without request and do not require a photo ID to vote, which opens them to election corruption, he said.