On Fake Scares: DHS Finds That Trump’s Wild Claims Notwithstanding, Illegal Voting by Noncitizens Is Vanishingly Small

1/14/26
QUICK TAKES // By Ben Frankel
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Donald Trump, both as a candidate and as president, has been consistent in denigrating the U.S. election system as “rigged,” claiming that one manifestation of this rigging is that “millions” of illegal immigrants have been allowed to vote in blue states.

Indeed, during the 2024 campaign, Trump and his allies charged that the Biden administration was purposely encouraging mass numbers of immigrants to cross the border in order to vote illegally.

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