President Trump's Justice Department announced a sweeping nationwide election-crime enforcement action Monday involving 63 people — including four illegal aliens.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche called it the largest voter-fraud arrest surge since President Trump returned to office. The cases span the country and include allegations involving illegal voting, false citizenship claims, fraudulent registrations and repeated ballots cast by people who were not eligible to vote.
The numbers are enormous: DOJ says 195 aliens across 25 states have been charged during the past nine weeks alone. Since the Trump administration began, 239 people have been charged with voting-fraud-related offenses.
🚨🗳️ Justice Department announces charges involving 63 individuals, INCLUDING FOUR ILLEGAL ALIENS, in connection with illegal voting, fraudulent voter registration, and related election crimes across the country.
— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) November 2, 2026
“Today’s announcement marks the largest surge of voter-fraud… pic.twitter.com/EnwtX3qq28
The Justice Department says the prosecutions reach from California to New York and cover several different forms of alleged election fraud. They include noncitizens accused of registering or voting, people accused of falsely claiming citizenship, and defendants accused of casting ballots in jurisdictions where they did not lawfully reside.
Some of the allegations are especially striking. Federal prosecutors in North Carolina charged one defendant with voting in nine general elections and nine primary elections despite lacking U.S. citizenship.
Another defendant in Texas is accused of voting in 12 general elections while illegally present in the country.
In California, federal authorities announced six additional cases involving foreign nationals accused of illegally registering to vote or casting ballots — and then lying about that conduct during the naturalization process.
🚨Following an HSI Los Angeles investigation, special agents arrested six additional foreign nationals charged with lying on naturalization forms after registering and voting in U.S. elections. Click below to read the full story. https://t.co/w0iPSlR19s
— HSI Los Angeles (@HSILosAngeles) November 2, 2026
These are charges, not convictions. Every defendant remains presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
But the scope of the announcement shows that the federal government is no longer treating election-law violations as paperwork mistakes that can be ignored.
Blanche said the Justice Department is working with state and federal partners to identify illegal votes, prosecute offenders and protect lawful ballots. Homeland Security investigators are playing a central role in the cases involving alleged noncitizen voting and immigration fraud.
Every single day, the men and women of @HSI_HQ are working to expose voter fraud.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) November 2, 2026
Under President Trump, @TheJusticeDept and DHS are working together to find, arrest, and prosecute these non-citizen voters.
Only American citizens should be electing America’s leaders, and those… https://t.co/atWQlfJfPF
The principle is simple: American elections are for American citizens. Every illegal ballot cancels out the voice of a lawful voter, and every jurisdiction has a duty to maintain accurate rolls and enforce the law.
The defendants will receive due process. At the same time, this operation sends an unmistakable warning that election crimes will be investigated, charged and brought into open court.
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