DHS Orders ICE to Deport Undocumented Voters, Citing Trump’s March 2025 Election Order
Updated
Updated · Fox News · Jun 9
DHS Orders ICE to Deport Undocumented Voters, Citing Trump’s March 2025 Election Order
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 9
Summary
A Monday letter from DHS General Counsel James Percival told ICE leaders to pursue deportation of undocumented immigrants who fraudulently cast ballots in U.S. elections.
DHS said illegal voting often coincides with false claims of U.S. citizenship and argued such ballots dilute citizens’ votes, framing the move as stricter enforcement of existing immigration law.
The directive builds on Trump’s March 2025 election-integrity order, which sought broad changes to voter registration, voting machines and mail-ballot rules to prevent non-citizen voting.
Recent cases have sharpened that push: a Mauritanian man was charged in March with voting in every presidential election since 2008, and four noncitizens were charged in May in multiple federal elections.
The move also extends a broader crackdown begun in August 2025, when USCIS said green card holders who voted or registered to vote could be denied U.S. citizenship.