Jen Psaki

Then on Friday, Trump's DHS secretary, Kristi Noem, cryptically said that her agency plans to, quote, make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country.

Now, when Noem said that on Friday, we I mean, it was weird.

It was kind of a lot of things, but we didn't really know what she was referring to.

And today we kind of found out we did find out.

I mean, today, MSNOW reported that the White House has directed DHS to hunt for voter fraud committed by naturalized U.S.

citizens.

Now, to put that in perspective, last year, the state of Utah conducted a review of the 2.1 million people who've registered to vote in that state.

Out of 2.1 million people, it's a lot of people, they only found one, one instance of an ineligible person registering to vote.

And that one person did not actually vote.

They just registered.

The Conservative Heritage Foundation found just 23 instances of non-citizens voting in U.S.

elections between 2003 and 2023, a 20-year span there.

So the Trump administration is directing DHS to hunt for and prosecute a problem that barely, barely, barely exists, something that we have absolutely no evidence of being a widespread problem that could actually affect election results.

According to documents reviewed by MSNOW and three people familiar with the plan, Homeland Security investigations agents in all field offices all across the country are all required to review both open and closed cases of suspected immigrants illegally voting.

But it's not just undocumented immigrants they're looking for.

A memo obtained by MSNOW calls for HSI agents to focus largely on immigrants who eventually did become naturalized citizens.

The New York Times also adds tonight that the directive envisions not just charging those now naturalized citizens with crimes or misdemeanors, but stripping them of their citizenship and deporting them.

To zoom out for a second, naturalized citizens are people who were not citizens at one point.

They immigrated here from somewhere else.

And at that point, were not allowed to vote in federal elections, but who have since become citizens and are now allowed to vote in federal elections.