Seven noncitizens have been charged in North Texas as part of a sweeping federal election-integrity operation, as the Trump administration ramps up its push to investigate and prosecute election-related crimes ahead of the midterms.Fox News exclusively joined Homeland Security Investigations as federal agents carried out arrests in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, getting a firsthand look at how investigators are identifying and pursuing suspected cases of noncitizen voting. U.S.Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Ryan Raybould, announced that six defendants were indicted on Sept.
10, while a seventh was charged with a criminal complaint the following day. Federal agents arrested six of the defendants over the following several days, while a seventh, who had been considered a fugitive, surrendered to federal authorities.Voters cast ballots at a polling station during an election.(iStock)"One of the individuals, an illegal alien from Mexico, actually was a 2023 convicted felon for lying on a passport application," Raybould said.
"So this person has already interacted with our office, the Department of Justice, and chose to then again commit a serious federal violation."In an exclusive one-on-one with Fox News, Raybould said the seven cases are only the beginning of his office’s efforts.Earlier this month, the DOJ charged five people in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Wisconsin in cases involving alleged illegal voting or fraudulent registration during the 2022 or 2024 elections."It’s important to clean up our elections and make sure that they’re free and fair," Raybould told Fox News."And my job as U.S.attorney is to prosecute cases and controversies.
And so if fraud happens, whether it’s our elections, our health care fraud system, stealing from the American taxpayer, I’m going to go after it."Raybould said prosecutors are focused on whether federal law was broken, not which candidate received an allegedly illegal vote.FBI ARRESTS SUSPECT ACCUSED O...