{"id":440244,"date":"2026-09-18T18:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440244\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T18:46:37","slug":"el-paso-ice-agents-arrest-mexican-national-accused-of-illegally-voting-in-2015-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/440244\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso ICE agents arrest Mexican national accused of illegally voting in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Homeland Security Investigations agents in El Paso arrested a Mexican national earlier this month on administrative immigration charges alleging he unlawfully voted in a U.S. election and falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen, according to the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>DHS said HSI El Paso arrested Ludwig Uriel Espejo-Carrillo on Sept. 3. <\/p>\n<p>The agency alleged Espejo-Carrillo, a lawful permanent resident, illegally voted in American elections in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He was administratively charged with unlawful voting and making a false claim to U.S. citizenship, DHS said. <\/p>\n<p>Administrative immigration charges are separate from criminal charges, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/news\/election\/el-paso-county-election-guide-for-nov-3-general-election?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso County Election Guide for Nov. 3 General Election<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Espejo-Carrillo, who is from Mexico, became a lawful permanent resident in July 2013, according to DHS. <\/p>\n<p>He remains in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the arrest reflects the agency\u2019s efforts to investigate noncitizens suspected of voting illegally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Homeland Security Investigations agents in El Paso arrested a Mexican national earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-440244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440244","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=440244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}