Overview
- An anonymous nearly 30‑page whistleblower disclosure released Monday says DHS’s “Unlawful Voter Initiative” ordered USCIS investigators to cross‑check federal immigration records with state voter rolls and to use state voter‑lookup sites sometimes by posing as the voter to view records.
- The complaint says agents were given a quota of about 40 reviews per eight‑hour day, leaving roughly 12 minutes per person and creating a rushed process that staff warned could produce errors.
- The operation reportedly relied on opaque source data that included legacy 'alien' identifiers that can remain after naturalization, which the whistleblower says risks flagging lawful U.S. citizens as unlawful voters.
- Agents were instructed to create TECS law‑enforcement records for flagged individuals, a move the complaint says could affect future immigration encounters, and supervisors allegedly assured staff they would not be personally liable for the searches.
- DHS has defended the work as using publicly available state data, but Senators Chuck Schumer and Alex Padilla demanded on Monday that Secretary Markwayne Mullin halt the initiative and answer detailed questions, setting up likely legal and congressional oversight.