Democrats spent years telling you noncitizen voting was a myth.
Now federal investigators are pulling voter files directly from county election offices – and two Texas and North Carolina counties already handed them over.
ICE didn't wait for permission from state officials or the courts – and what that means for the 2026 midterms is something Democrats are desperately trying to stop.
Homeland Security Investigators Go Around the State and Straight to the Counties
Homeland Security Investigations – the criminal investigation arm of ICE – contacted election officials in Webb County, Texas, and Forsyth County, North Carolina, requesting individual voter files this spring.
Both counties complied.
The requests followed an April inquiry from an HSI criminal analyst to the Texas Secretary of State's office seeking guidance on obtaining voter registration data for ongoing investigations.
The analyst wrote that the agency was seeking voter information including "dates and methods of registration, elections voted in, etc."
The move bypasses the friction that slowed federal access at the state level and goes directly to local election clerks – officials who have no political cover and legal obligations to respond to law enforcement requests.
That's not an accident.
This is exactly how federal investigations are supposed to work.
Trump Already Proved the Problem Is Real
This is not the administration chasing ghosts.
ICE arrested a Guinean national after investigators obtained his voting records and found he had allegedly cast ballots in seven federal elections dating back to 2008 – general and primary contests across 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024.
That's a foreign national potentially canceling out the votes of American citizens across six election cycles.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened investigations into more than 100 potential noncitizens who allegedly cast more than 200 ballots in the 2020 and 2022 cycles – made possible after Trump's executive order gave states access to the federal SAVE database to check citizenship status of registered voters.
Texas also referred 33 confirmed potential noncitizen voters from the November 2024 election to the attorney general's office for criminal investigation.
The Webb County elections administrator told reporters he had seen only two cases of noncitizen voting among more than 150,000 registered voters in four years – and said he had never received a request like this before.
Two cases still means illegal votes were cast.
The DOJ Already Sued 29 States That Won't Cooperate
The county-level ICE requests are one piece of a far larger operation.
The Justice Department has sued 29 states and the District of Columbia for refusing to turn over statewide voter registration rolls.
"Accurate voter rolls are the cornerstone of fair and free elections, and too many states have fallen into a pattern of noncompliance with basic voter roll maintenance," then-Attorney General Bondi said.
Three federal courts dismissed early DOJ cases against California, Oregon, and Michigan – but the Justice Department has appealed all three, with the Michigan appeal on an expedited track that could produce a ruling before November 2026.
That deadline matters.
If federal courts order blue states to surrender voter rolls before the midterms, Democrats lose a wall they have spent years building around election data they do not want inspected.
Heather Honey, DHS's deputy assistant secretary for election integrity, confirmed the agency has been in direct contact with Texas election officials and has engaged with every state's chief election official in the country.
Every single one.
This isn't a fishing expedition.
It's a coordinated, multi-agency operation built on Trump's March 2025 executive order directing federal agencies to root out noncitizen voting – and it's now reaching the county level, one voter file at a time.
Democrats called this impossible.
They called it a conspiracy theory.
Now they're calling their lawyers.
Sources:
- James Morley III, "ICE Obtains Voter Records From Texas, N.C. Counties," Newsmax, June 13, 2026.
- "Justice Department Sues Five Additional States for Failure to Produce Voter Rolls," Department of Justice, February 26, 2026.
- "DOJ Sues Six States for Refusing to Turn Over Voter Registration Rolls," Fox News, 2026.
- "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections," The White House, March 25, 2025.
- "Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Ensures Citizenship Verification and Voter Eligibility in Federal Elections," The White House, March 31, 2026.
- "Texas Investigates More Than 100 Potential Noncitizens Who Allegedly Cast Illegal Ballots," Fox News, 2025.
