A Bahamian national who arrived in the U.S.during President Gerald Ford’s administration and was living with a green card while racking up a violent rap sheet before investigators found he voted illegally in the 2020 election, sparking the deportation process, officials say.The case of Anthony Tyrone Higgs is only the latest in a slew of arrests connected to illegal votes cast in recent elections, as the Trump administration engages in a broader crackdown on election integrity-related crimes."This alien was a guest in our country who forfeited his right to be in the U.S.
when he committed these violent crimes and voted in the 2020 election," White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis exclusively told Fox News Digital on Friday.ICE ARRESTS PERUVIAN NATIONAL ACCUSED OF ILLEGALLY VOTING IN 2024 ELECTION AS DHS CITES SIMILAR CASESICE agents assemble in Minnesota, left; Anthony Tyrone Higgs, inset right.(Charly Triballeau/Getty Images; DHS)"Any non-citizens who vote illegally in our elections will be arrested and removed.
American elections are only for Americans."Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of DHS, confirmed in a statement that Higgs had illegally voted in the 2020 election.FORMER KANSAS MAYOR WHO PLEADED GUILTY TO ILLEGAL VOTING TURNS HIMSELF IN TO ICEHSI’s Atlanta office arrested Higgs in Decatur, Georgia on September 3, and he is currently in the custody of ERO, the ICE subdivision that handles migrant removal operations.Higgs was admitted into the U.S.in October 1976 as a Lawful Permanent Resident – commonly dubbed a Green Card holder.
The Trump DHS has since placed him in proceedings to revoke his immigration status due to his lengthy rap sheet.TRUMP DOJ UNLEASHES LARGEST DENATURALIZATION EFFORT IN DEPARTMENT HISTORY — AND SAYS IT’S ‘ONLY THE BEGINNING’Sen.Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 5, 2026.
(J.Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)"This criminal alien from the Bahamas has a rap...