Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin used Election Day itself to send a direct warning to anyone thinking of voting who is not allowed to: "If you vote illegally in this country, and you are NOT eligible to vote, DHS will find you, hunt you down, and you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." His closing line was the administration's whole position in one sentence: "Only American citizens should be deciding American elections."
Mullin backed the warning with the enforcement record. In the same message he said DHS has already arrested 195 people for illegal voting-related crimes, which he called the most in U.S. history. Justice Department figures published on November 2 put the wider drive at 195 noncitizens charged with illegal voting and registration offenses across 25 states in the last nine weeks, 239 people charged with voting fraud-related offenses since the start of this administration, and a fresh round of charges involving 63 individuals, including four illegal aliens.
The message lands while the same fight runs through the courts, where judges are ruling on how far the Justice Department can go in pressing states over their lists of suspected noncitizen voters. The administration's argument, which Mullin's post states plainly, is that American elections belong to American citizens and that the federal government will enforce that line on Election Day itself, not after it.
For eligible voters, nothing about Tuesday changes: citizens vote exactly as they always have. The warning is aimed at the other side of the line — a noncitizen who casts a ballot now faces being found, arrested and prosecuted, and the department says those cases are already being made in the dozens across the country.
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