Democrats spent years insisting noncitizen voting was a myth invented by paranoid conservatives.
The Trump DOJ is done waiting for blue states to act.
What Harmeet Dhillon just put in writing has election officials in California, New York, and Illinois scrambling for lawyers.
Illegal Alien Voting Convictions Are Mounting Across the Country
A Mexican illegal alien who became mayor of a small Kansas town and pleaded guilty to voting illegally.
A Filipino grandmother in Maui charged with casting illegal ballots in two separate elections.
Two Pakistani men in New Jersey charged with voting in federal elections they had no right to enter.
An Australian citizen in Louisiana charged with voting in multiple federal elections.
A Chinese graduate student at the University of Michigan who turned himself in and now faces two felony charges.
These are the cases Democrats told you weren't happening.
The Trump Justice Department has secured roughly two dozen noncitizen voting arrests, prosecutions, or convictions in just the last few months. Another 90 cases are actively under investigation, DOJ officials confirmed to Just the News.
Three illegal voters in Florida confessed just before the July 4th holiday weekend – one from Cuba, one from Haiti, both admitted to casting ballots in the 2020 federal election. A Brazilian national admitted to voting in 2024.
In Hawaii, a foreigner was charged with illegal voting for the first time in four decades.
"Voting in federal elections is one of the most important rights and responsibilities of American citizenship," said U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones of the Southern District of Florida. "Federal law is clear: only United States citizens may vote in federal elections. These defendants admitted that they knowingly violated that law."
The DOJ Is Now Threatening Election Officials with Criminal Prosecution
On July 7, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon sent letters to election officials in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Election officers who knowingly leave noncitizens on state voter rolls – or help them cast ballots – now face criminal liability under federal law.
States had five days to explain how they plan to comply.
"It isn't just bad policy to let non-citizens vote in federal elections, it's a crime," Dhillon said on Just the News. She made clear the department would prosecute officials who knew about noncitizens on their rolls and did nothing.
DOJ officials have identified three problems threatening the 2026 midterms: hundreds of thousands of dead voters still on the rolls, tens of thousands of illegal aliens registered to vote, and a growing number of foreigners who have already cast ballots in federal elections.
Dhillon told the Washington Examiner that decades of prosecutorial neglect made this worse than it had to be.
"We are trying to empty an ocean with a teaspoon," she said, "because there isn't a culture of U.S. attorneys going after these."
Blue States Are Blocking DOJ Access to Their Voter Rolls
The DOJ is currently in litigation with 30 states that refused to hand over voter registration data – New York, New Jersey, Illinois, and California among them.
The roughly dozen states that cooperated have already turned up between 20,000 and 30,000 noncitizens on their rolls, according to DOJ officials. The resistant states – the ones with the largest illegal alien populations – haven't let investigators look at all.
Michigan's Democrat Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson spent years claiming noncitizen voting didn't happen in her state. Last year she was forced to admit her office found 15 credible cases – including the University of Michigan student who turned himself in.
Dhillon's letter warned Benson personally that she could face criminal prosecution for aiding and abetting noncitizen voting.
In Washington, D.C., a conservative watchdog group found evidence that 388 foreign nationals voted in the 2024 general election.
"It is an outrage and insult to every American citizen," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, referring to D.C.'s decision to allow the votes to be cast. "Congress can and should end this practice immediately."
Senate Democrats Are Killing the SAVE America Act
President Trump is pushing the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act – which requires proof of citizenship to register and photo ID to vote.
The House passed it in February 2026.
Senate Democrats are blocking it.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called it a "voter suppression bill." Not one Democrat has offered to explain why requiring proof of citizenship to vote in American elections is controversial.
Rep. Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin said the answer is obvious – parties that want to cheat fight photo ID requirements, and Democrats have fought every version of this bill at every stage.
Americans need photo ID to board a plane or fill a prescription. Democrats say requiring the same to protect the ballot is racist.
Dhillon projects the total number of noncitizens on American voter rolls will reach into the hundreds of thousands once all state reviews are complete.
The only people served by dirty voter rolls are politicians who need them dirty to win.
Sources:
- John Solomon, "Evidence mounts of noncitizens reaching voter rolls, casting ballots as DOJ speeds crackdown," Just the News, July 12, 2026.
- "DOJ's Harmeet Dhillon: Some states have 'homework to do' to keep noncitizens from voting in midterm elections," Washington Examiner, July 8, 2026.
- "Justice Department Vows Criminal Action Against States that Allow Noncitizens to Vote," Breitbart, July 8, 2026.
- "DOJ's Civil Rights Division Continues Its Election Integrity Offensive," Daily Caller, July 8, 2026.
- "DOJ fights to make U.S. voter rolls more secure," RSB Network/Newsmax, July 10, 2026.
- Sen. Chuck Grassley, "Q&A: SAVE America Act," Senate.gov, March 20, 2026.
