{"id":335720,"date":"2026-06-14T06:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335720\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T06:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T06:13:15","slug":"ice-agents-accessed-voter-files-in-texas-and-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335720\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE agents accessed voter files in Texas and North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were given access to voter files in two counties in Texas and North Carolina, according to an Axios news report<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Election officials from Forsyth County, North Carolina and Webb County, Texas, gave voter file information to agents from the ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit, as part of the Trump administration\u2019s agenda to find instances of noncitizens voting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There have been diminishingly few cases of noncitizens intentionally voting illegally, and no cases of this happening at a widespread level. However, President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted, without facts to back him up, that noncitizen voting is prevalent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dispatching of ICE agents to obtain personal voter files is the latest federal incursion<\/a> into states\u2019 and counties\u2019 constitutional authority over managing elections. Trump\u2019s Department of Justice (DOJ) is also embroiled<\/a> in an intrusive campaign to pry voter data from every U.S. state.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsing ICE to pursue a problem this rare should concern everyone,\u201d said Dan McGrath, senior oversight counsel for the pro-voting legal organization Democracy Forward<\/a>, in a statement to Axios.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Democracy Forward obtained emails from public record requests showing correspondence between the county election officials and ICE from May and November of last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

HSI also requested voter information from Texas\u2019s Secretary of State office in April, as did Department of Homeland Security (DHS) senior \u201celection integrity\u201d official Heather Honey, according to the emails Democracy Forward received. <\/p>\n

Before joining DHS, Honey was an election conspiracy activist who unsuccessfully sought to overturn<\/a> the 2020 election results to help Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cHSI is actively rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it can be found,\u201d said a DHS spokesperson said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At DHS, Honey has sought<\/a> voter data from the DOJ to ferret for voter fraud. She told Axios that her agency \u201chas engaged with every state secretary or chief election official.\u201d<\/p>\n

On June 9, DHS General Counsel James Percival instructed<\/a> ICE to pursue stricter penalties for noncitizens found voting illegally, including deportation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIllegal voting by aliens dilutes the votes of American citizens and undermines our democracy,\u201d said Percival. \u201cIt must have consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were given access to voter files in two counties in Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-335720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}