HOLD FOR STORY - Two people kayak around Blackstone Bay in Whittier, Alaska on May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) The Associated Press

WHITTIER, Alaska -- Squeezed between glacier-packed mountains and Alaska's Prince William Sound, the cruise-ship stop of Whittier is isolated enough that it's reachable by just a single road, through a long, one-lane tunnel that vehicles share with trains. It's so small that nearly all its 260 residents live in the same 14-story condo building.

But Whittier also is the unlikely crossroads of two major currents in American politics: fighting over what it means to be born on U.S. soil and false claims by President Donald Trump and others that noncitizen voter fraud is widespread.

In what experts describe as an unprecedented case, Alaska pros

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