DHS says 250,000 Potential Noncitizen Voters in Four States

The Department of Homeland Security announced on Friday, July 17, 2026, that it has identified approximately 250,000 potential noncitizens registered to vote in four states and is threatening to withhold federal election grants from those states unless they cooperate with federal voter roll reviews. The announcement by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin followed a primetime address by President Donald Trump the previous evening in which he revived claims of foreign election interference and domestic vulnerabilities.

Secretary Mullin stated that a preliminary DHS review identified roughly 190,832 potential noncitizen registrations in California, 35,152 in New Jersey, 15,903 in Nevada, and 14,576 in Pennsylvania. He said the department compiled these figures by comparing publicly available voter registration records with federal immigration data, as the four states did not participate in a Trump administration review of voter information. Mullin warned that states must now work with DHS to implement security measures, including using the federal Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program to verify voter citizenship, or risk losing federal election...