DHS Agents Comb Voter Rolls for Noncitizens

Hundreds of federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security have been assigned to an intensive, weekslong hunt for noncitizens among the nation's registered voters, the New York Times reported Wednesday — despite what the paper describes as an absence of evidence of widespread fraud.

Agents are scouring voter rolls managed by the states, cross-referencing registrations against voter birthdates and partial Social Security numbers.

Hours after the report, an immigrant rights group sued the Trump administration to block DHS from using federal databases the group says are being used to target naturalized citizens who are eligible to vote.

The Numbers DHS Cites

DHS says more than 24,000 cases of potential noncitizen voter registrations have been flagged since April 2025.

The department says 60 million voter verification queries have been processed through its overhauled SAVE program over the same period.

The New York Times reports that noncitizen voting is exceedingly rare, and that President Trump has claimed without evidence that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote.