Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon uses CBS appearance to defend DOJ’s sweeping noncitizen voting crackdown
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Harmeet Dhillon told CBS’s "60 Minutes" that the Justice Department is pursuing noncitizen voting cases as part of a broader enforcement push, insisting the investigation has been underway for more than a year and framing it as a response to alleged election abuse.
Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon appeared on CBS’s "60 Minutes" to defend the Justice Department’s investigation into noncitizen voting ahead of the upcoming midterm elections. When host Lesley Stahl asked whether the probe was meant to stir distrust in the election system, Dhillon insisted the opposite was true, arguing that distrust already exists and stressing that the department is now bringing a larger number of cases than in previous administrations. She cited the Biden administration’s prosecution of 13 noncitizen voting cases as a baseline and emphasized that the Justice Department has been conducting investigations for more than a year, with "thousands" of leads under review.
Dhillon repeated a policy announced in July to pursue every provable case of illegal voting, describing the approach as a "broken windows" strategy that departs from earlier practices focused only on large-scale fraud. She said there are "no plans" to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to polling locations and dismissed speculation about a nationwide challenge to the midterm results, saying any challenge would likely involve only individual votes rather than the overall election outcome. A Justice Department spokesperson added that the agency is bringing more than double the number of election-fraud cases each week compared with 2020, arguing that strict enforcement against illegal ballots is necessary to protect election integrity.