Gladys Okafor, a 56-year-old Nigerian national, cast ballots in the 2022 midterms and the 2024 presidential election. She is not a U.S. citizen. A Venezuelan national on DACA voted nine times between 2008 and 2024. A Chinese student at the University of Michigan voted. A Filipino senior citizen in Hawaii. Two Pakistani men in New Jersey. A Mexican-born mayor in Kansas.
Thirteen. That's how many people the Biden administration prosecuted for election crimes in four years.
The Trump DOJ and DHS have now arrested and indicted over 200 individuals in a sweeping voter fraud crackdown, with Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon explaining that the dragnet is just getting started. The Department of Justice alone has indicted or convicted 67 individuals for election-related crimes in recent weeks. DHS, under Secretary Markwayne Mullin, has made more than 160 arrests separately. And 1,620 voter fraud cases involving noncitizens are currently under active DHS investigation.
Behind those numbers is a pipeline nobody in the previous administration wanted to examine. The U.S. Census Bureau published a brief in August 2026 showing that more than 24,000 noncitizens voted in the 2020 general election — 4,300 in California, 2,500 in Texas. Of the roughly 160 million votes cast that year, only 128 million have been verified as coming from U.S. citizens. Thirty-two million are still being analyzed.
"I think there are a lot of nervous election officials because I think some of them know that they've been looking the other way when this is happening, and we're catching it all over the country," Dhillon said.
She singled out New Jersey. "I'm not sure we have the correct numbers from New Jersey. They're not really cooperating with us." The state's Division of Elections and Motor Vehicle Commission have been less than forthcoming, which is a polished way of saying they're stonewalling a federal investigation into whether foreigners voted in their elections.
The most recent DOJ announcement charged 16 people across seven states. Jesus Javier Jurado Garcia, 25, of Beloit, Wisconsin, was charged with noncitizen voting in the 2022 midterm. James Brass, 46, was arrested for fraudulent signatures. Courtney Price, 49, and Jateisha Herron, 33, were both charged with identity fraud tied to voter registration. These aren't hypothetical scenarios from a Heritage Foundation white paper. These are indictments.
Mullin put it plainly, "Every single vote, Kayleigh, that we talk about, that was at the hands of an illegal canceled out a citizen that was legally registered."
First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, Central District of California, framed it in terms the courts care about: "The charged conduct undermines the confidence voters have in our election systems."
Nevada offers a useful case study in what happens when someone actually checks. Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar identified 16,000 potential foreigners on the state's voter rolls. The net removal from Nevada's rolls hit 50,130. That's one state. The DOJ has sent notices to all 50 requesting cooperation, and 300,000 additional cases are under review based on state voter roll data nationwide.
The "voter fraud is a myth" crowd spent years treating the phrase like a religious confession — say it often enough and it becomes true. The counterargument was always the same: there's no evidence because nobody's looking. The DOJ under Biden managed 13 prosecutions in four full years. The Trump DOJ has indicted 67 in weeks.
Thirteen in four years. Over two hundred in months. The math isn't complicated. The question was never whether fraud existed. The question was whether anyone in power wanted to find it.
