Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon defended the Trump administration's investigation into noncitizen voters ahead of the midterm elections during CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday."There are people who feel that the point is to sow distrust about the whole election system.There are very few people who are noncitizens who end up voting — very, very few.
And so, therefore, what's the purpose?" Lesley Stahl, host of "60 Minutes," asked Dhillon.ELECTION CRIME ARRESTS KEEP PILING UP AS DEMS INSIST IT 'JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN'Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon pushed back on claims the Trump administration is sowing election distrust, saying thousands of noncitizen voting cases are under review.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)Dhillon responded, "The point is actually the opposite of what you were saying.
It's not to sow distrust.The distrust is there.
And so, all of these kinds of crimes are being prosecuted now for the first time really, in volume.And look, even the Biden administration prosecuted 13 people for noncitizen voting."Stahl interrupted and said the numbers were "tiny.""So Lesley, we've been in office for less than two years.
We've had investigations ongoing for over a year, and it takes time.There are literally thousands of them out there that we are looking at," Dhillon responded.DEMOCRATIC NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR SAYS THOUSANDS OF NONCITIZENS DISCOVERED ON VOTER ROLLS, PURGEDThe assistant attorney general defended the Trump administration's voter roll scrutiny on "60 Minutes" ahead of the midterms.
(Jim WATSON / AFP via Getty Images)Dhillon pledged in July that the Trump administration will pursue every provable case of illegal voting under what she described as a "broken windows" enforcement strategy, marking a sharp shift from prior administrations as the DOJ intensifies scrutiny of voter rolls following revelations that noncitizens were registered to vote in New Jersey.Dhillon told Fox News Digital at the time the department's appro...