Hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens have been registered to vote in the United States.
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The Rob Carson ShowAug 25, 2026
The claim rests on DHS and Trump administration figures of roughly 250,000 to 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote, which fact-checkers and state officials rejected as unsubstantiated and which shrank sharply under review (Nevada from 15,903 to 185 confirmed, California from 190,000 to 20,000).
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What was said
… and, and of course, all of the ballot dumps and ballot boxes and the signatures that don't match and stuff, and illegals being registered to vote, and it's happened, by the way. No, it doesn't happen at all. Rob, you're wrong. Oh no, I'll get the other one. Hundreds of thousands of illegals have been registered to vote around the country, by the way, and it's all by design. That's why the Democrat Party opened the southern border. But President Donald Trump's administration now, the Supreme Court lifted a judicial decision blocking the administration from implementing his order to restrict the use of mail-in ballots ahead of …
The Rob Carson Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Contradicts. FactCheck.org found the tool wrongly flagged many U.S. citizens and that there is no evidence of widespread noncitizen voting; state audits refute the idea of widespread noncitizen voting.[1]
Contradicts. Snopes rated the DHS claim of 250,000 noncitizen registrations false, found no supporting evidence, and California's secretary of state called the allegation 'fallacious' and 'unsubstantiated.'[2]
Contradicts. CNN reports the administration's figures have narrowed considerably under scrutiny: California fell from 190,000 to about 20,000, and in Nevada only 185 of the 15,903 flagged registrants were confirmed as noncitizens.[5][6]
Contradicts. Reuters found federal prosecutors charged only 129 people under the federal 'voting by aliens' statute since 1996, undercutting claims of a widespread noncitizen voting conspiracy.[3]
Contradicts. Brookings cites Heritage Foundation data of 100 documented noncitizen voting cases from 1982 to 2025, and Georgia and Nevada audits finding only small numbers of noncitizens on rolls, far below hundreds of thousands.[4]
Context. ABC News reports states pushing back on the claims, with the administration's California figure whittled from 190,000 to 20,000 by the time of a DOJ lawsuit.[7]
Sources
7 sources: 3 fact-checkers, 1 primary, 1 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1Flaws in Government Tool to ID Noncitizen Votersfactcheck.org · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2DHS claimed 250K noncitizens are registered to vote across 4 states. Here's the truthsnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 3Trump claims voting by noncitizens is rampant in America. The ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 4Why do so few noncitizens try to vote? - Brookings Institutionbrookings.edu · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 5Inside the Trump administration’s lists of alleged noncitizen ...cnn.com · tier 2 · cited for: contradicts
- 6Why Trump’s big claims of voter fraud have yielded so few prosecutions | CNN Politicsus.cnn.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 7States push back on Trump's noncitizen voting claimsabcnews.com · not rated · cited for: context
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