Trump has shown that Democrats have been lying for years about noncitizens voting in elections

Published September 18, 2026 8:18am ET



For years, Democrats have consistently denied that illegal immigrants were voting in elections in the United States. Whenever a left-wing legislator discussed the topic of illegal immigrants voting in the nation’s elections, such concerns were always arrogantly dismissed. Those expressing regular concerns or insisting it was happening were often mocked, ridiculed, and branded as delusional conspiracy theorists. As such, since illegal immigrants voting in elections “never happens,” Democrats have repeatedly said there is no need for voter identification laws. 

However, the thing that Democrats say never happens happened again — again. A “Mexican alien” was arrested after an investigation discovered he had voted in past elections. Homeland Security Investigations arrested Ludwig Uriel Espejo-Carrillo and “administratively charged him with unlawful voting and false claim to U.S. citizenship.” Espejo-Carrillo became a lawful permanent resident in 2013 and voted illegally in an election as far back as 2015, according to the Department of Homeland Security. And federal law stipulates that “non-citizens, including permanent legal residents, cannot vote in federal, state, and most local elections.”

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