Federal investigators from ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit have obtained voter registration files from election officials in Webb County, Texas, and Forsyth County, North Carolina, as part of the Trump administration’s effort to identify and remove noncitizens from voter rolls.
According to records obtained by Axios, HSI agents requested specific voter data from Webb County officials in May.
The files, which can include registration history, addresses, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, and voting history, were provided.
In North Carolina, a separate HSI request last November sought registration information for two individual voters in Forsyth County, and those records were also turned over.
This move follows President Donald Trump’s executive order directing federal agencies to strengthen citizenship verification in elections and crack down on illegal voting.
The administration has made rooting out noncitizen voting a priority, arguing that even small numbers of ineligible votes undermine election integrity.
DHS has been actively promoting the use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database, which allows states to check the citizenship status of registered voters against federal immigration records.
Webb County Election Administrator Jose Castillo told Axios that he had not previously received such requests from federal immigration authorities. He claimed that in his four years on the job, he had seen only two confirmed cases of noncitizen voting among more than 150,000 voters in the county.
Castillo said he is now directing HSI to submit future requests through public records channels rather than direct inquiries.
A DHS spokesperson confirmed that HSI is actively investigating election fraud and stated that the agency has repeatedly demonstrated that illegal aliens can and do vote in elections.
“While ICE Homeland Security Investigations is not able to comment on any active investigations, HSI is actively rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it can be found,” a DHS spokesperson told Axios.
“We have repeatedly demonstrated that illegal aliens can and do vote in our elections. Under President Trump, HSI is committed to restoring integrity to our election systems and ensuring that American citizens and only American citizens are electing American leaders.”
In North Carolina, state election officials have already begun using the SAVE system to review voter rolls for noncitizens.
The State Board of Elections approved new rules in April to check the citizenship of all registered voters against federal databases, with processes in place before any voter is removed.
The Trump administration has directed the Department of Justice to pursue statewide voter roll data from states and push federal databases like SAVE into election administration.
In a memo released this week, DHS General Counsel James Percival directed ICE’s legal office to pursue maximum consequences, including deportation proceedings, for noncitizens found to have voted illegally.
The next few months will likely see more states and counties receiving similar inquiries as the federal government steps up its election-integrity initiatives ahead of the midterms.
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