明尼苏达州 alone 就有十名外国国民被起诉，总检察长托德·布兰奇称执法行动“对我们的民主至关重要”
2026年10月1日 美国东部时间凌晨5:00 / 福克斯新闻频道
作者：查尔斯·克莱茨，福克斯新闻
众议员奇普·罗伊详细阐述了《拯救美国法案》的紧迫性，该法案旨在保障联邦选举安全。他重点提到了新泽西州出现的“软件故障”，该州有6600名非公民登记投票，其中数百人实际完成了投票。罗伊强调，这一普遍存在的问题证明了选民身份证法案的必要性——这项举措得到了80%美国人的支持，他敦促参议院通过该法案。
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最近几周，联邦当局针对非公民发起了一系列与选举相关的起诉并实施逮捕，这与民主党此前的说法形成鲜明对立——他们先是声称此类投票“极其罕见”，随后又断言这种情况“根本不会发生”。
这些案件正值两党就《拯救美国法案》展开党派斗争之际，该法案要求选民在联邦选举中登记投票时必须提供公民身份证明。民主党人认为，这项举措会让符合资格的美国选民更难投票。
“我要明确说明：这根本不是一个问题。非公民不会在美国选举中投票，”宾夕法尼亚州民主党众议员玛丽·盖伊·斯坎隆2025年在当时对该法案投下反对票后曾如此宣称。
本月，费城郡（斯坎隆部分代表该地区）有三名非公民被捕，并被指控犯有与选举相关的罪行。
拜登政府在一名女性2024年非法投票数月前为其颁发了绿卡：国土安全部
来自加纳的约书亚·科菲·埃齐在因非公民投票相关指控被捕后被拍下照片。（国土安全部供图）
特立尼达和多巴哥国民萨德·吉皮被指控在2022年中期选举中非法投票，而海地非法移民克利夫·萨农则被指控在2026年宾夕法尼亚州初选前提交了虚假的选民登记申请。
国土安全部还向福克斯新闻数字频道指出了毛里塔尼亚非法移民马哈迪·萨科，他被指控自2008年以来参与了七次联邦选举的投票。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系斯坎隆置评。
代表特拉华郡和费城部分地区的宾夕法尼亚州民主党众议员玛丽·盖伊·斯坎隆出席听证会。（格雷姆·斯隆/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
周三，司法部长托德·布兰奇宣布，仅在明尼苏达州就有10名外国国民因犯有选民欺诈罪被起诉，其中包括在8月的初选中涉案人员。他表示，这一问题不应成为“党派议题”。
这些被指控的非法选民分别来自巴西、加纳、德国、波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那、利比里亚以及加拿大。
加利福尼亚州民主党参议员亚历克斯·帕迪利亚同样称非公民投票“极其罕见”，同时谴责《拯救美国法案》是“反选民”举措，并声称特朗普试图“将移民当作替罪羊”。
周三，当福克斯新闻数字频道问及近期一连串逮捕事件时，帕迪利亚再次确认此类犯罪“本就属于非法行为，每一份严谨的研究都表明其极其罕见，尽管唐纳德·特朗普持相反论调”。
“司法部在对美国1.74亿登记选民中的数百万选民进行调查后逮捕了十余人，这就证明了这一点，”他说道，并补充称他希望司法部能转而关注德克萨斯州等州报道的选民登记处理延误问题，确保每位符合资格的选民都能参与投票。
民主党新泽西州州长称选民名册上发现数千名非公民，已将其清除
加利福尼亚州民主党参议员亚历克斯·帕迪利亚2025年6月12日周四在洛杉矶威尔希尔大道联邦大楼举行的新闻发布会上发言。（卢克·约翰逊/洛杉矶时报 via 盖蒂图片社）
帕迪利亚称，最近宣布的12起逮捕事件是“共和党人孤注一掷的企图，旨在转移人们对他们执政期间不断上涨的成本、混乱局面和腐败行为的注意力，这些问题正在伤害美国民众”。
纽约州民主党众议员乔·莫雷尔称《拯救美国法案》“极其危险”且是“选民压制手段”。他的办公室已回复福克斯新闻数字频道，但在截稿前未置评。
上个月，弗吉尼亚州费尔法克斯郡的民主党众议员詹姆斯·沃金肖在MS NOW节目中也表达了类似观点。
“这种情况极其罕见，几乎无法统计。它根本不会发生，”沃金肖说道，他猜测特朗普试图重提“大谎言”，并“抱怨自己在2020年大选中失利”，如今共和党在中期选举失利后，他又故技重施提出类似主张。
福克斯新闻数字频道还试图联系沃金肖和佛蒙特州独立党参议员伯尼·桑德斯置评，桑德斯今年3月曾表示“非公民不会在美国选举中投票”。
新泽西州州长米基·谢里尔今年夏天也披露，该州约有400名非公民投了票，但她拒绝了要求加强联邦审查的呼吁。
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国土安全部部长马克韦恩·穆林2026年9月1日在纽约市纽约州美国公民及移民服务局（USCIS）纽约外勤办公室举行的新闻发布会上发言。（迈克尔·M·圣地亚哥/盖蒂图片社）
本月还有三名新泽西州居民因非法投票和在公民身份申请中作出虚假陈述而被指控。他们分别来自牙买加、委内瑞拉和塞内加尔。
当被问及这一动态时，国土安全部发言人告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，该机构无法对正在进行的调查置评，但仍致力于“查明并调查任何可发现的选举欺诈行为”，并提供了相关证据。
“尽管媒体和民主党几十年来一直否认这一点，但非公民仍在继续在联邦选举中登记和投票，”白宫发言人劳伦·比斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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2025年9月10日，在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦外的上参议院公园举行的“只有公民才能投票”巴士巡回集会中，与会者聆听犹他州共和党参议员迈克·李就通过《拯救美国法案》发表讲话。（肯特·西野/盖蒂图片社）
“只有美国公民才能选举美国领导人，”她说道，此时在关键的中期选举临近之际，双方围绕这一议题的争论愈发激烈。
福克斯新闻的小威廉·米尔斯为本报道提供了素材。
本文作者在宾夕法尼亚州艾伦敦出生并长大，自2013年起在福克斯新闻的纽约和华盛顿分社工作。
Election crime arrests keep piling up as Dems insist it ‘just doesn’t happen’
Ten foreign nationals indicted in Minnesota alone as AG Todd Blanche calls enforcement ‘fundamental to our democracy’
October 1, 2026 5:00am EDT / Fox News
By Charles Creitz, Fox News
Congressman Chip Roy details the urgency for the Save America Act to secure federal elections. He highlights a “software glitch” in New Jersey, where 6,600 non-citizens registered to vote and hundreds actually voted. Roy stresses that this widespread issue validates the need for voter ID, a measure supported by 80% of Americans, urging the Senate to pass the bill.
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Federal authorities made arrests in a string of election-related indictments against noncitizens in recent weeks, colliding with Democratic claims ranging from such voting being “extremely rare” to assertions that it simply “doesn’t happen.”
The cases come amid a partisan fight over the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. Democrats argue the measure would make voting harder for eligible Americans.
“Let me be perfectly clear: This is a non-issue. Noncitizens do not vote in U.S. elections,” Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., declared in 2025 after voting ‘no’ on the bill at the time.
Three noncitizens were arrested this month in Philadelphia County, which Scanlon partially represents, and charged with election-related offenses.
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Joshua Kofi Edzie of Ghana is pictured after his arrest on noncitizen voting-related charges.(DHS)
Trinidad and Tobago national Sade Guppy allegedly voted illegally in the 2022 midterms, while Haitian illegal immigrant Cliff Sanon was charged with submitting a fraudulent voter registration application prior to the 2026 Pennsylvania primary.
DHS also pointed Fox News Digital to Mauritanian illegal immigrant Mahady Sacko, who is accused of voting in seven federal elections since 2008.
Fox News Digital reached out to Scanlon for comment.
Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., who represents Delaware County and part of Philadelphia, is seen during a hearing.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
On Wednesday, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced indictments of 10 foreign nationals accused of committing voter fraud in Minnesota alone, including during August’s primary, saying the issue should not be a “partisan concept.”
The alleged illegal voters captured are from Brazil, Ghana, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Liberia and Canada.
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., has similarly called noncitizen voting “extremely rare” while denouncing the SAVE Act as “anti-voter” and claiming Trump is trying to “scapegoat immigrants.”
When asked Wednesday by Fox News Digital about the spate of arrests, Padilla reaffirmed the crime is “already illegal and every legitimate study shows it is extremely rare, despite Donald Trump’s claim to the contrary.”
“The Department of Justice’s arrest of a dozen people after investigating millions of the 174 million registered voters in America confirms that,” he said, adding he wished the DOJ would instead focus on reported delays in voter-registration processing in states like Texas to ensure every eligible voter can vote.
DEMOCRAT NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR SAYS THOUSANDS OF NONCITIZENS DISCOVERED ON VOTER ROLLS, PURGED
Sen. Alex Padilla speaks during a press conference at the Federal Building on Wilshire Blvd. on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Los Angeles.(Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Padilla called the recent announcement of 12 arrests a “desperate attempt by Republicans to distract from their record of rising costs, chaos, and corruption that are hurting the American people.”
Rep. Joe Morelle, D-N.Y., has called the SAVE Act “extremely dangerous” and “voter suppression.” His office responded to Fox News Digital but did not offer comment before press time.
Last month, Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw of Fairfax County, Virginia, spoke out similarly on MS NOW.
“It is so rare that it’s almost impossible to measure. It just doesn’t happen,” Walkinshaw said, surmising that Trump is trying to resurrect the “Big Lie” and “whining about the fact that he lost the 2020 election” by posturing to make similar claims after Republicans lose the midterms.
Fox News Digital also sought comment from Walkinshaw and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who said in March that “noncitizens do not vote in American elections.”
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill also disclosed over the summer that roughly 400 noncitizens had voted in the state while resisting calls for additional federal scrutiny.
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) New York field office on Sept. 1, 2026, in New York City, New York.(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Three New Jersey residents were also charged this month with illegally voting and making false statements on citizenship applications. They hailed from Jamaica, Venezuela and Senegal.
Asked about the dynamic, a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital the agency could not comment on active investigations but remains committed to “rooting out and investigating election fraud wherever it can be found,” demonstrating proof.
“Despite the media and Democrats denying it for decades, noncitizens continue to register and vote in federal elections,” White House spokesperson Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital.
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Attendees listen to Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) speaking at an “Only Citizens Vote” bus tour rally on passing the SAVE Act at Upper Senate Park outside the U.S. Capitol on September 10, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
“Only Americans should be electing America’s leaders,” she said, as clamoring from both sides of the issue grows louder ahead of key midterm elections.
Fox News’ William Mears Jr. contributed to this report.
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