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Justice Department Charges Foreign Nationals With Illegal Voting

5 sources · updated 2026-10-30
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What happened

The Department of Homeland Security announced arrests of more than a dozen noncitizens accused of illegally voting in U.S. elections, describing the cases as part of a nationwide enforcement effort. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Immigration and Customs Enforcement had arrested noncitizens alleged to have voted illegally, some of whom have prior records that include assault, domestic violence, drug trafficking, burglary, and driving under the influence. Named individuals in the DHS account include Juan Carlos Matute-Hernandez of Honduras, Aden Hassan Aden of Somalia, Arturo Salazar Garcia of Mexico, and others from Cuba, Germany, Nicaragua, Vietnam, Venezuela, Cambodia, Guatemala, and Mexico, with alleged illegal votes tied to elections from 1992 through 2026. Separately, ICE arrested Osmal Sanchez Loy, a Cuban national in Pennsylvania, on charges of illegally voting; he had a 2009 deportation order that was not carried out. The Daily Caller reported ICE documents identifying 17 people connected to election-related investigations, including both people without legal status and lawful permanent residents accused of unlawfully registering or casting ballots.
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On the record means the article cites a source by name for the story's main claim: a person, or an institution speaking officially, such as a company statement or a named agency's spokesperson. The opposite is an unnamed source. The count is how many of the counted articles cite at least one such source; the names are everyone named across them, each once however the articles spell it. Here: Markwayne Mullin, U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson, Nathan Abel, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
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How it developed
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ONE-SIDED THIS WEEK. Only right-leaning outlets have covered this story in the last two days; Bloomberg reported it on 2026-10-19.
Omitted — what each side leaves out

Unpacked

Right-leaning coverage reports that ICE has arrested foreign nationals accused of illegally voting in U.S. elections, many with prior criminal records, and left-leaning coverage has not reported the story. Secretary Markwayne Mullin is quoted saying ICE arrested people who "illegally voted in American elections." Right-leaning outlets split on who those people are: Breitbart casts them as criminal illegal aliens, while Daily Caller includes lawful permanent residents and states its ICE files do not establish an election-related conviction for every name. The alleged votes are not all recent: a 1992 case appears in Daily Caller and not in Breitbart's main roundup. A reader who sees only left-leaning outlets would miss the arrests themselves, the mix of immigration statuses among those named, and the difference between an ICE accusation and a voting-crime conviction. How many of those ICE named have actually been charged in court with illegal voting?
Bottom line

Left-leaning outlets have not reported the ICE arrests at all. Only a Daily Caller reader would see that the agency's files name 17 people and still do not prove each one was convicted of a voting crime.

The receipts — 4 facts one side's coverage lacks
  • ICE documents detail 17 people connected to investigations and arrests involving election-related offenses numberin Daily Caller · absent from left-leaning coverage
  • Osmal Sanchez Loy, a Cuban national, was ordered deported in 2009 and remained in the U.S. for 17 years before his Pennsylvania arrest for allegedly voting illegally individual casein Breitbart · absent from left-leaning coverage
  • Puja Bagga, a lawful permanent resident from India, allegedly voted in 2015, 2022, and 2024 individual casein Daily Caller · absent from left-leaning coverage
  • ICE official Micah Bock said each vote by a criminal illegal alien cancels out a vote of an American citizen official statementin Daily Caller · absent from left-leaning coverage
The Right View
Right-leaning outlets presented the arrests as a Trump administration crackdown on noncitizen voting and election fraud. Breitbart reported DHS’s announcement of more than a dozen arrests, listing names, countries of origin, alleged election years, and criminal histories, and quoted Mullin saying American elections are for Americans only and that illegal aliens would not be allowed to steal citizens’ votes. A Breitbart exclusive covered the Pennsylvania arrest of Osmal Sanchez Loy, noting drug and stolen-property convictions, a visa that never became permanent residence, and 17 years in the country after a deportation order. The Daily Caller, citing ICE documents it obtained, described 17 people accused of unlawful registration or voting, including lawful permanent residents, and quoted ICE that each illegal vote cancels a citizen’s vote; it also stated those documents do not establish that every named person has been convicted of an election offense.
Our Take (balanced)
The story is substantively sourced: it names specific people, countries, alleged election years, and criminal histories, and the Daily Caller cites ICE documents rather than anonymous rumor. What is established is that DHS and ICE publicly announced arrests and investigations of named noncitizens for alleged illegal voting, and that some of those named have prior criminal records or removal orders. What remains alleged is that each person actually voted illegally or has been convicted of an election crime; the Daily Caller itself notes the documents do not show election-related convictions in every case. No left-leaning outlet has reported this. Watch for charging documents, court dockets, voter-roll matches, and any independent confirmation or official response from election officials or prosecutors.

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