Rep. Eric Swalwell Now Accused of Violating Immigration & Employment Law

Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell is in a world of trouble.

As we reported earlier today, the Manhattan DA office has officially launched an investigation into claims of sexual assault.

More on that here:

Rep. Swalwell Now Officially Under Investigation By Manhattan DA: Reports

As if that wasn’t bad enough, Rep. Eric Swalwell is now being accused of violating immigration and employment law.

Evidence has surfaced to suggest that he may have illegally paid a Brazilian nanny who did not have U.S. work authorization off-the-books using campaign funds.

Here are the details:

🚨 OMG. As if it couldn't get any WORSE for Eric Swalwell: He is now accused of violating IMMIGRATION and EMPLOYMENT law to keep an illegal alien nanny from Brazil in America

This dude is so COOKED!

A DHS complaint claims Swalwell paid her UNDER THE TABLE with CAMPAIGN FUNDS… pic.twitter.com/Tb16lx3iMa

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 11, 2026

OMG. As if it couldn’t get any WORSE for Eric Swalwell: He is now accused of violating IMMIGRATION and EMPLOYMENT law to keep an illegal alien nanny from Brazil in America

This dude is so COOKED!

A DHS complaint claims Swalwell paid her UNDER THE TABLE with CAMPAIGN FUNDS for 2 years when she didn’t have a valid work authorization, per NYP

A recently filed Labor complaint claims that Swalwell and his wife “LIED to the feds to keep Amanda Barbosa working for them”

He’s also facing s*xual assault allegations, and possibly the release of the FANG FANG files.

A DHS complaint cites evidence of potentially fraudulent campaign payments for “childcare.”

Additionally, the alleged nanny appeared in several photos with Rep. Swalwell’s kids on social media.

The New York Post reported further on the new allegations:

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell — a frontrunner in the California governor’s race — has been accused of violating immigration and employment law to keep his illegal live-in Brazilian nanny in the country, according to a pair of recently filed complaints.

When his South American babysitter’s temporary work authorization was about to expire in 2022, he and wife Brittany Swalwell lied to the feds to keep Amanda Barbosa working for them, a new complaint filed Tuesday with the Department of Labor claimed.

Another complaint, filed to the Department of Homeland security in February and previously unreported, accuses Swalwell of paying the nanny under the table with campaign funds for a period of two years when she didn’t hold valid work authorization.

“Barbosa appears in numerous social media photos with the Swalwell family throughout 2023 and 2024, indicating continued close association and ongoing childcare responsibilities despite the absence of known lawful work authorization,” the complaint to DHS, dated Feb. 16, alleged.

The embattled California gubernatorial hopeful first hired Barbosa, 33, in the fall of 2021 to look after his three children.

Barbosa had come to the US from Rio de Janeiro in January 2021 on an au pair visa. She was paid $3,914 in campaign funds that year, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission data by The Post.

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She continued working for the Golden State politician as a live-in nanny the next year, receiving $46,930 in campaign funds in 2022, FEC records show.

With her au pair visa coming to an end in December 2022, Swalwell began the process of sponsoring her for a green card, according to a permanent labor certification application reviewed by The Post.

While that drawn out process played out, she enrolled at community college, according to her LinkedIn, and under student visa rules, wasn’t allowed to work off campus.

But that doesn’t appear to have stopped Swalwell, whose other international fumbles have included the infamous Fang Fang affair.

Social media photos from her since-deleted Facebook account show Barbosa caring for the kids at a variety of family events over the next two years, even being so bold as posting photos at the annual White House picnic in 2023 and 2024, where she’s holding up the youngest child, then two, in her arms while sporting a blue sundress.

In another snap, on Halloween in 2024, she’s taking the kids trick or treating while wearing a Brazil soccer shirt.

Her LinkedIn page, also deleted since the allegations, said she worked as a private childcare provider continuously from 2021 to present, according to a screenshot included in the complaints.

On paper, the direct campaign payments to Barbosa had stopped.

Instead, $52,262 in campaign expenses for “childcare” were written off to Swalwell himself, FEC records reviewed by The Post show. The complaint alleges that was a fraudulent workaround to keep Barbosa off the books while she wasn’t authorized to work in the US.

“It’s a brazen disregard for the law. He’s harboring and employing an illegal,” slammed California filmmaker and activist Joel Gilbert, who filed the complaint.

This man’s political career has been rocked by multiple scandals throughout the years.

But, this may truly be the final nail in the coffin.

What do you think?

Should he resign immediately?