Inside Trump’s failed hunt for noncitizen voters

By: Peter Elkind, Jen Fifield, Doug Bock Clark, Ken B. Morales, Andy Mannix

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: August 20, 2026

Words: 4,972

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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This story first appeared in ProPublica.

It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota’s U.S. attorney’s office, received an urgent email from Washington.

The federal government was scrambling to find criminal cases to back up President Donald Trump’s claims that illegal voting by noncitizens was tipping the scales in American elections. Agents from Homeland Security Investigations, a massive federal law enforcement agency, had been dispatched to work leads across the …

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