ICE Arrests Australian Green Card Holder Accused of Voting in Two Federal Elections

Federal authorities say a noncitizen from Australia registered to vote and cast ballots in two American federal elections, and now she is in custody.

The Department of Homeland Security announced that ICE and Homeland Security Investigations arrested Denise Nataly Migliore, an Australian national living in Louisiana, after an investigation into illegal voting.

She was taken into custody at the federal courthouse in New Orleans on July 1.

This is the kind of case the left keeps insisting never happens.

Here is the official DHS post announcing the arrest.

ICE ARRESTS ALIEN WHO ILLEGALLY VOTED IN TWO ELECTIONS.

Denise Nataly Migliore, an Australian national, was arrested by @HSINewOrleans and charged after an investigation found she illegally cast ballots in the 2022 and 2024 elections.

American elections belong to AMERICAN… https://t.co/5aC1ghZWnR pic.twitter.com/Ue0ej4LAbx

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 8, 2026

The Department of Homeland Security said the case grew out of a Homeland Security Investigations probe into a noncitizen casting ballots in multiple federal elections, with ICE and HSI handling the enforcement side.

DHS identified the woman as Migliore, an Australian national, and said she was arrested after allegedly voting illegally in more than one election, including the 2022 and 2024 cycles.

The agency tied the arrest directly to the message driving enforcement under President Trump, that American elections belong to American citizens and cannot be treated like an honor system.

DHS made clear that noncitizens who vote can face criminal charges and immigration consequences, including removal, which turns this from a paperwork dispute into a citizenship-and-ballot-box enforcement case.

The department also made the case a public example of why federal election enforcement cannot depend on assumptions. If a person can allegedly claim citizenship, register, and cast ballots before investigators catch it later, the damage is already done by the time the criminal case begins.

That is the core of the dispute over proof-of-citizenship voting rules. The Trump administration is pointing to cases like this and arguing that verification must happen at the front door, not after the ballot has already been counted.

The specific charges come from federal prosecutors in Louisiana.

The Justice Department said Migliore, age 51, of Franklinton, Louisiana, and originally from Sydney, was named in a four-count indictment returned on June 11, 2026.

Prosecutors allege she knowingly made false claims to U.S. citizenship, once around October 6, 2022 and again around October 22, 2024, in order to register to vote in federal elections.

They allege she then cast ballots on November 8, 2022 and November 5, 2024, despite not being a U.S. citizen, which is the central fact that makes the case more serious than a bad registration form.

The counts cover making false statements to register to vote and illegal voting, and the Justice Department said Homeland Security Investigations and the FBI handled the investigation before the case moved to prosecutors.

The Justice Department also said the case is being handled by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana, with Special Assistant United States Attorney Rick Veters assigned to the prosecution.

If convicted, Migliore faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison, three years of supervised release, a fine up to $250,000, and the mandatory special assessment listed by prosecutors.

The Justice Department also included the standard caution that an indictment is only an accusation, and that guilt must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

The legal posture is clear: she is charged, not convicted.

The mechanics described in the indictment are exactly what election-integrity advocates have warned about for years.

A green card holder can walk into the registration process, check the citizenship box, and end up on the voter rolls because the system runs on trust rather than proof.

The Daily Caller reported that ICE arrested Migliore at the New Orleans federal courthouse on July 1 following the HSI investigation, giving the DHS announcement a firm arrest date and location.

Its report noted that DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis described the case as an example of a foreign national facing charges for falsely claiming citizenship and casting ballots in two elections.

The outlet connected the arrest to renewed conservative pressure for the SAVE America Act and documentary proof-of-citizenship requirements in federal elections, the exact policy fight this case feeds.

Democrats and their media allies keep treating citizenship checks as some imaginary panic, while enforcement officials keep producing defendants who allegedly got through the system anyway.

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The Daily Caller also placed the case alongside other recent noncitizen-voting prosecutions, making clear this is a recurring enforcement problem that election officials would rather minimize than fix.

DHS said the quiet part out loud in its own follow-up post.

ONLY AMERICANS SHOULD ELECT AMERICAN LEADERS.

Denise Nataly Migliore, an alien from Australia, was arrested by @ICEgov after falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen and illegally casting ballots in two elections. This is yet another example of why we must pass the SAVE America Act… https://t.co/5oWeL2zqkz

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 7, 2026

Fox News reported that Migliore is a lawful permanent resident from Australia accused of falsely claiming citizenship before voting in Louisiana.

The report laid out the timeline of registration claims in 2022 and 2024, ballots cast in November of each year, and the arrest by Homeland Security Investigations at the federal courthouse.

It noted she could face up to five years in prison if convicted, along with the DHS warning that noncitizen voters risk both prosecution and deportation.

Fox also identified the case as a voter-fraud concern rather than a paperwork hiccup, because prosecutors say the citizenship claim opened the door to actual ballots in federal elections instead of stopping at a bad line on a form.

That distinction is why the case is politically explosive. The public debate usually gets stuck on whether noncitizen voting is common enough to worry about, but this indictment forces a simpler question: why should federal elections rely on a checkbox when citizenship can be verified before registration?

Nobody is claiming one ballot in Franklinton flipped a national election.

The point is simpler and harder to dodge. Officials say it happened at all, and it happened twice, under a system that had no way to catch it until investigators went looking.

If verification required a document instead of a promise, a case like this never gets to the ballot box in the first place.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at 100 Percent Fed Up. View the original article here.