Chinese couple ordered to be deported after tip about illegal voting — feds say they were framed



A Chinese national was arrested Wednesday in Massachusetts for orchestrating a bizarre scheme involving the alleged framing of another national for voter fraud.

33-year-old Yupeng Sun impersonated another Chinese person who had legal permanent status and tried to frame the victim for voting in the 2024 election, according to a U.S. Attorney's Office press release.

He then submitted numerous anonymous tips to Homeland Security Investigations and US Citizenship and Immigration Services accusing the victim of illegally voting.

Sun also allegedly submitted two fraudulent immigration forms in the name of the victim and his wife, which led to their green cards being confiscated. They were also entered into removal proceedings.

Prosecutors said Sun impersonated the victim in order to register online to vote and then submitted an early voting ballot at Malden City Hall.

He then submitted numerous anonymous tips to Homeland Security Investigations and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services accusing the victim of illegally voting in the presidential election.

Sun went on to impersonate the couple in order to request the abandonment of their legal permanent status.

The couple discovered the scheme when they returned to the U.S. from an international trip in June 2024 and their green cards were confiscated during secondary inspection at the airport in Boston.

The DOJ said the Lexington Police Department and the Andover Police Department were instrumental in the investigation to unravel Sun's alleged scheme.

Sun was charged with one count of fraudulent voter registration and one count of fraudulent voting.

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The charging documents indicated that the victims told police Sun was their tenant but had been evicted and retaliated by harassing them and ultimately trying to get them deported. Sun had been arrested for allegedly attacking the victims' daughter, but the charges were dropped.

Sun admitted that he was "very, very" angry at both the victim and his daughter in an interview with police and appeared to confess to signing some of the documents.

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How Kamala Harris accidentally sold the SAVE America Act



Former Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2028 presidential front-runner, recently criticized the SAVE America Act because it would require people to prove their citizenship when registering to vote.

Well, yes.

Sometimes the strongest argument for legislation comes from the people trying to defeat it.

Requiring someone to establish that he is a U.S. citizen before being added to the voter rolls is not some hidden provision critics just uncovered. It is the point of the bill.

The SAVE America Act would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship before registration for federal elections. Harris meant that as an indictment. Supporters see it as the safeguard at the heart of the legislation.

Recent events are making the distinction harder to dismiss.

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security warned election officials in California, New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania that tens of thousands of noncitizens appeared on state voter rolls.

Less than a week later, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill (D) acknowledged that roughly 6,600 noncitizens had been registered because of what she called a “software glitch.”

Calling it a software glitch may explain how it happened. It does not answer the more important question: Why did the system allow it to happen at all?

New Jersey does not prove that every state has the same problem, and an erroneous registration is not the same thing as an illegal vote. But it does demonstrate the basic case for prevention rather than cleanup.

How long did the vulnerability exist? Why was it not caught sooner? And why should states wait until ineligible registrations occur before verifying eligibility?

The New Jersey episode becomes even more revealing because lawmakers had already spotted the weakness.

In May, state Sens. Jim Beach (D) and Kristin Corrado (R) introduced bipartisan legislation intended to prevent New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission from prompting people to register to vote after they had already indicated they were not U.S. citizens.

Think about that for a second.

The software glitch did not invent the vulnerability. It exposed a problem legislators were already trying to fix. That is precisely why supporters of the SAVE America Act want safeguards at the front end of registration, before election officials are left explaining how ineligible names reached the rolls.

As Texas Public Policy Foundation Chief National Initiatives Officer Chuck DeVore wrote in “How to Ensure That Only Citizens Vote,” “When non-citizens vote for any reason, citizens’ votes are diluted and thus disenfranchised.”

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The argument is not that eligible Americans should face needless obstacles. It is that citizenship should be established before someone is placed on a federal voter roll, protecting the weight of every lawful ballot.

That position is hardly outside the mainstream.

A recent Fox News poll found that 83% of registered voters favored requiring photo identification to register and 77% favored requiring it to cast a ballot.

Most Americans appear to regard verification as a reasonable expectation, not an extraordinary burden. Which makes the Democrats' position even stranger.

Earlier this year, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Democrats support voter ID.

Then came the vote. Senate Democrats opposed Ohio Republican Sen. Jon Husted's voter ID bill, which would have required voters to present valid identification before receiving a ballot in federal elections.

So what exactly do they support?

The debate has become almost comically inverted. Critics say proof of citizenship goes too far. Democrat leaders say they support voter ID. Then, when a voter ID requirement reaches the Senate floor, they vote against it.

Meanwhile, New Jersey has supplied a real-world example of what happens when verification comes too late.

Kamala Harris meant to make the case against the SAVE America Act. Instead, she described exactly why its supporters want it.

The contradiction now extends well beyond Harris: Democrats say they support verification while opposing the mechanisms designed to perform it.

Sometimes the strongest argument for legislation comes from the people trying to defeat it.

Trump has media and left panicking over election national emergency threat



The U.S. Senate adjourned on Saturday for a five-week recess without passing President Donald Trump's SAVE America Act. The fate of the legislation, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote, remains uncertain.

The president may, however, have an ace up his sleeve — and the very possibility that he might play it has liberals panicking.

'Preempt the motherf**ker.'

Real America's Voice host Wayne Allyn Root pressed Trump in an interview Tuesday about the possibility of using emergency executive measures to temporarily achieve what might otherwise be accomplished by passing the SAVE America Act.

"It's so hard to get the Senate to do anything. Now they're on recess. They don't get anything done," said Root. "If they never get the SAVE America Act done, you have the right to declare a national security emergency for elections."

"The Supreme Court ruled in 1983 under Reagan ... — INS versus Chadha — that if you declare a national security emergency as the president of the United States, they can't challenge it. It can only be overturned by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress," continued the conservative host.

In INS v. Chadha, the high court found that the House of Representatives' veto of an executive action — in that case, the suspension of a foreign national's deportation — by way of passing a resolution constituted a legislative action and therefore required passage in both houses of Congress as well as ratification by the president.

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"The Supreme Court’s Chadha decision invalidated 'legislative veto' provisions in many laws that maintained congressional oversight over the executive branch’s exercise of delegated powers," John Chappell wrote in an analysis for Responsible Statecraft. "Congress could delegate powers to the president, but reasserting control in specific instances would require a vote in both chambers and a presidential signature. Because the president would presumably veto congressional efforts to undo their decisions, Congress needs two-thirds of each chamber to override a presidential veto."

Root told Trump, "So if you do this in the next month, we will get photo ID, proof of citizenship, and a limit to mail-in ballots, and you don't even need the Senate's vote."

The president hinted that it was within the realm of possibilities.

"Let me just say this: Stranger things have happened, OK," said Trump. "I'll leave it at that."

Although Trump did not say whether he would pursue this option, liberals nevertheless began to panic.

CNN reporter Aaron Blake characterized the president's refusal to rule out the option as "the latest warning sign that Trump could try to mess with the election not just by baselessly claiming voter fraud and challenging the results afterward — as he did in 2020, leading to a violent riot at the U.S. Capitol — but by trying to unilaterally take control before votes are cast."

Steve Benen, an anti-MAGA producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," wrote, "The president could have responded by saying, 'No, I won’t do any such thing, because I care too much about preserving our democracy and system of government.' But he didn’t. The Republican instead suggested that he saw this as an actual possibility."

Failed presidential candidate Joe Walsh also got agitated, writing, "Here’s the deal Democrats, the time to stop Trump from declaring some bulls**t national security emergency is NOW. The time to stop him from f**king with/cancelling/federalizing the midterms is BEFORE he does it. Preempt the motherf**ker."

"Illegal and unconstitutional. Republicans have no interest in democracy when democracy gets in their way," tweeted the Democrats on the House Committee on Homeland Security. "They know what's coming in November and they are terrified."

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'Software error' led to 400 noncitizens voting in New Jersey, says Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill



A "serious software error" in New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle System led to 6,600 people who indicated they were not citizens to be wrongly registered to vote, according to the state's governor.

Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill said in a statement Tuesday that the error was discovered last week and that she has replaced the vendor responsible and taken those voters off the rolls.

'They were registered as Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state.'

"These individuals answered 'no' when asked on a keypad whether they were a U.S. citizen when applying for driver's licenses and identification cards, but through no fault of their own, the system registered them anyway," Sherrill said.

Sherrill said the registrations occurred between June 2023 and June 2024, years before she got into office.

"This happened under the previous administration and, upon learning this information, I immediately ordered my chief counsel to launch an investigation to get to the bottom of what occurred," she said. "I also ordered the removal of any residents from our voter rolls who were erroneously added between June 2023 and June 2024."

She went on to say she was "appalled" by the "reckless failures" that led to the false registrations.

"Our preliminary analysis shows fewer than 400 individuals who were newly registered for the first time because of the error voted," she added. "They were registered as Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated voters and were scattered across the state."

Sherrill blamed the previous administration under Gov. Phil Murphy, another Democrat.

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Merrill went on to try to preempt criticism from Republicans about voter integrity.

"As the Trump administration tries to weaponize elections for political gain, I am ensuring we protect our elections," she added. "Let me be clear: Donald Trump has zero credibility on the issue of election integrity. For more than 10 years, he has worked to undermine Americans' faith in our elections by spreading lies about legitimate election results, attempting to overturn a free and fair election, encouraging an attack on our Capitol when he couldn't accept the will of the voters, and defunding election security at the federal level."

Trump has been pressing for the SAVE America Act, which would require voters to show photo ID before registering to vote.

"Yet another reason to PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!" responded a White House social media account. "It would require states to submit voter rolls to the USCIS/DHS SAVE system for citizenship verification (which New Jersey currently does not do) — preventing this exact scenario from happening in the first place."

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Latino voters want the SAVE Act



Latino voters overwhelmingly support requiring government-issued photo ID to vote.

A Poll conducted by Pew Research Center confirmed that 82% of Latino voters in the United States approve such a requirement. The SAVE Act would codify the popular supermajority opinion on voter identification into law, but while the House has passed it multiple times, it has stalled in the Senate.

As citizens, Latinos want to protect the democratic republic that has blessed their lives so richly.

It should be no surprise that Latino voters support the key feature of the SAVE Act.

First, immigrant voters highly value their citizenship and the right to vote that it conveys to them. It takes at least seven years of legal presence in the U.S. to become a citizen, and those who have gone through that process value what they learned and who they became in the process.

They are proud and patriotic and zealous to preserve the system they have adopted and mastered. They do not take their rights as citizens lightly, and they do not want noncitizens to vote. Second, immigrant voters highly value the rule of law, which they recognize as the main thing that makes the United States what it is — the best place in the world to work and build a prosperous and free life.

While writing my book, “The New Pilgrims: How Immigrants are Renewing America’s Faith and Values,” I interviewed many immigrants who specifically explained that they moved to America for the purpose of coming under the rule of law. They understand that no justice, no equal protection under law, is possible without it.

They can also articulate how lawlessness and cheating undermine prosperity in their home countries. They understand that the land of the free and home of the brave persists because of America’s deep cultural commitment to obeying the law. They understand how illegal voting would undermine the very thing they value most about life in America.

Third, Latino immigrants, whether they are here legally or illegally, do not want noncitizens to vote in our elections. While the vast majority of illegal immigrants in America lead disciplined lives characterized by arduous labor, careful observance of the law, and moral practices such as church attendance, Latino immigrants recognize that there is a criminal element among many new immigrants that they do not want to empower in the United States.

Many of the most vulnerable illegal immigrants fled to the United States to get away from such people in their countries of origin. They do not want to risk arrest, imprisonment, or deportation by voting illegally, and they certainly do not want the criminal element to do so.

Hispanic immigrants in the United States who have become citizens have a terrific record of success in building the American dream of prosperity and freedom.

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Many current U.S. government officials and members of Congress illustrate spectacular success stories of immigrants and children of immigrants from Latin America: Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), and Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), not to mention Sonia Sotomayor, Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Luz Rivas (D-Calif.), and many others on both sides of the aisle.

Stories from industry, business, education, the military, the clergy, and every institution and profession in our society offer a literally never-ending story of Latino success in America. The system works beautifully for those who pay the price to become citizens and raise their children to love our country.

As citizens, Latinos want to protect the democratic republic that has blessed their lives so richly.

Latino voters are not a monolith. They voted for the Republican and Democrat presidential candidates in nearly equal numbers in 2024. In future elections, they will vote for the candidates that best represent their values and support them in Congress.

It’s time for both Democrat and Republican senators to represent the overwhelming Latino opinion and vote to pass the SAVE Act now, while there is still time to rescue America’s political integrity.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.

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Olive Garden's Never-Ending Pasta Pass has better security than our elections, Trump team mocks



The Trump administration is slamming the Democratic Party for ensuring our elections are less secure than the Olive Garden's Never-Ending Pasta Pass.

White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson appeared on Newsmax on Friday and made the humorous suggestion that Olive Garden's pasta pass has higher identification requirements.

'Olive Garden takes pasta pass security more seriously than Democrats are taking election security!'

"I saw a tweet yesterday from Olive Garden of all places that in order to take advantage of their Never-Ending Pasta Pass, you have to show photo ID. And I thought, 'That's weird! Olive Garden takes pasta pass security more seriously than Democrats are taking election security!'" Jackson said while the show hosts laughed.

"So yes, President Trump is going to keep pushing this, and it just shows how absurd the Democrats are," she added, "that they can't even get behind commonsense policies that even somewhere like Olive Garden can say, 'Hey we need this for us too!'"

Video of Jackson's comments was posted to social media, where some on the left imploded with fury.

"They’re not asking for a f**king passport and a marriage certificate," responded left-wing influencer Joanne Carducci.

"Happy to show my ID at the polls if it came with unlimited breadsticks," replied former Democratic New York City Councilman Justin Brannan.

"You know, I never quite thought of it that way because, unlike Ms. Jackson, I'm not quite insane," said one detractor.

"Can't wait to see what Applebee's has to say about the Constitution," said another critic.

Some accused Jackson of citing online rumors as a source, but she was indeed correct about Olive Garden asking for photo identification.

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Jackson posted the social media statement from Olive Garden confirming a valid photo ID is necessary to gorge endlessly on its fettuccine Alfredo or five-cheese ziti al forno.

"The Never-Ending Pasta Pass is only for use by the Passholder whose name is printed on the Pass. Passes are personalized and non-transferable. Passholders must present a valid photo I.D. along with the Pass at the time of ordering," said an Olive Garden message posted Thursday.

Finally, if this is the first time you've heard about the Never-Ending Pasta Pass, and you want to rush over to Olive Garden's website to sign up, you're too late. The 10,000 pasta passes have sold out.

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Foreign adversaries CAN change American votes, and states better take action: Mullin



President Donald Trump enraged Democrats and other leftists — including the heir to George Soros' activist empire — on Thursday by disclosing in his national address evidence pointing to the insecurity of American elections.

"Our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen, and the trust of the American people was lost," the president said. "This cannot be allowed to continue."

'We know that they can change voter registration and your vote. We know it's possible. There's not a question. It's not even for debate.'

While Democratic officials were still hyperventilating over Trump's insistence that lawmakers pass the SAVE America Act to protect against the kinds of trust-breaking meddling that evidence suggests occurred in recent years, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin detailed in a Friday briefing what his agency plans to do to "secure our elections."

"It shouldn't be a partisan issue," Mullin said. "This should be something that every American, regardless if you're a Republican, you're a Democrat, you're an independent, you're a libertarian — regardless of if you live in a blue state or you live in a red state — everybody should know that their vote counts. And we have individuals that are voting that shouldn't be. It cancels out someone that should be."

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Digging "just a little bit deeper" into some of Trump's claims from the night before, Mullin said the Department of Homeland Security has identified 250,000 noncitizens who were registered to vote in just four states — California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Nevada.

According to the DHS' preliminary review, there were 190,832 noncitizens registered to vote in California; 35,152 in New Jersey; 15,903 in Nevada; and 14,576 in Pennsylvania.

Mullin issued warnings to the secretaries of state for these four states on Friday, asking them to confirm within two weeks whether they intend to collaborate with the DHS on voter security measures.

"Mind you, we have 46 other states," said Mullin, who noted further that the DHS has worked with 23 "proactive states" to identify another 28,000 noncitizens on voter rolls, along with "400,000 individuals that are still registered to vote that are deceased."

Again reinforcing concerns raised by Trump on Thursday, Mullin claimed that foreign adversaries are able to gain access to American voting machines.

"Talking about our machines, we know for sure that our foreign adversaries — not our allies, foreign adversaries — have parts that are vital pieces in our voting machines. We know that they can access what they consider the key to the back of these machines," he explained.

"We know that they can change voter registration and your vote. We know it's possible. There's not a question. It's not even for debate," Mullin continued.

In terms of remedies, the DHS secretary said his agency will not only apply "maximum pressure" flushing out noncitizens attempting to vote, but — working in concert with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick — will make new security enhancements "mandatory."

Accordingly, states seeking reimbursements for administering federal elections must take steps to ensure both that their voting machines are secured and their voter registration lists are "scrubbed."

"We are not going to spend taxpayer dollars reimbursing the state that is refusing to secure their elections," Mullin said.

The DHS announced last week that all Homeland Security Grant Program recipients must:

  • submit a plan for phasing out certain electronic voting systems and shifting to hand-marked paper ballots;
  • conduct a manual audit of at least 5% of all ballots cast after each federal election;
  • reconcile the number of voters who participated in each federal election with the numbers of ballots cast;
  • run voter rolls through the DHS' citizenship verification database; and
  • use the Immigration Services' Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system or another authorized government system to ensure that everyone working at polling places or operating election systems are American citizens.

"States must do their part to secure our election system, and we stand by to help," Mullin said.

Mullin noted further that the DHS is working with the Pentagon to safeguard the voting systems used by military service members, and that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will release an updated election infrastructure plan providing states with the additional resources "they need to help from the cyber side."

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Democrats go into FULL PANIC MODE after Trump exposes election interference from China and the deep state



In his primetime address to the nation on Thursday — which ABC, CNN, and NBC refused to carry — President Donald Trump provided damning insights into the apparent insecurity of American elections and past efforts to both exploit and cover up election system vulnerabilities.

Trump highlighted, among other things, the apparent attempts by the Chinese communist regime to interfere in the 2020 election; China's "illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files"; the work by "members of the deep state" to "actively suppress and downplay information about the extent of China's sinister election meddling"; and the discovery, according to a Department of Homeland Security review, that approximately 278,000 noncitizens were registered to vote.

'He has cynically and corruptly decided to call into question our free and fair elections.'

"Great damage has been done to our country. Our elections were left vulnerable to being rigged and stolen, and the trust of the American people was lost," said the president. "This cannot be allowed to continue."

Officials in Beijing are hardly the only leftists outraged over Trump's disclosures.

Following the speech and the White House's release of supporting documents, Democrats lashed out in an apparent panic and accused Trump of trying to "rig" the upcoming midterms.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), found to have an unfavorability rating of 43% according to a recent Harvard-Harris poll, characterized Trump's speech as a "pathetic attempt" to deny that "he lost the 2020 election."

"He is working to rig the midterms before a single vote has even been cast. We won't let him," Schumer said in a statement. "When it comes to the SAVE Act, the courts have rejected it, Congress has rejected it, even members of your own party have rejected it — give it up."

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In his speech, Trump noted that "addressing this crisis of election security demands that Congress must pass the SAVE America Act" — proposed legislation that would require individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote.

"The only reason you wouldn't do it is you want to cheat because your policies are so bad and your candidates are so pathetic that you can't get away or can't get elected any other way," added Trump.

Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the House minority leader who hours earlier threatened American "regime change," suggested that the concerns and evidence Trump presented to the nation on Thursday amounted to "deliberate and dangerous lies."

Like Schumer, Jeffries claimed that the president's concerns about election security are part of an election subversion strategy.

"He has cynically and corruptly decided to call into question our free and fair elections before a single ballot has been cast," said Jeffries, a staunch opponent of the SAVE America Act. "Why? Republicans believe they need to cheat to win."

Michigan Democrats, whose state featured in the president's discussion of possible voter fraud, said that "despite whatever this rambling and corrupt man says, thousands of clerks, poll workers, and elections staff nationwide administered a free and accurate election" and claimed that Trump was actually attempting to "undermine our elections and disenfranchise voters."

Some Democrats rushed to conclude that Trump was lying about election vulnerabilities even before he began speaking on Thursday.

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), for instance, said ahead of Trump's speech, "You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bulls**t."

All 24 Democratic governors clutched pearls over the speech, noting in a joint statement, "It's deeply alarming that President Trump continues to try to undermine free and fair elections. No amount of lies and conspiracy theories can change the fact that our country’s elections have repeatedly been proven to be safe and secure."

According to the Democratic governors, Trump's "attacks" are "intended to intimidate and silence voters."

Gavin Newsom, the governor of a state where noncitizens can vote in certain elections, individually crashed out over Trump's speech, saying in a video, "This was a legitimate 25th Amendment moment, the ramblings of a mad king."

Newsom told his followers that "nothing about what you watched tonight ... was real."

Sticking to the Democratic script, Newsom added that Trump "wants to rig the election in 2026."

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