Illegal immigrant charged for allegedly voting in every presidential election since 2008

FIRST ON FOX: An amerciable migrant from Africa who has allegedly voted successful each national predetermination since 2008 has been arrested, Fox News Digital has learned, arsenic legislature lawmakers fiercely statement a connection to fortify predetermination integrity laws. 

Mahady Sacko, a Mauritanian citizen, has been charged with elector fraud successful Philadelphia, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Monday. 

"This criminal illegal alien committed a felony by voting in federal elections dating backmost to 2008. Illegal aliens should NOT beryllium electing American leaders," DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis said. "Our elections beryllium to American citizens, not overseas citizens. Congress indispensable walk the SAVE America Act immediately to secure our elections. The Senate indispensable walk the SAVE America Act." 

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Mahady Sacko, a Mauritanian citizen surviving successful the U.S. illegally, has fraudulently voted successful each national predetermination dating backmost to 2008, national prosecutors said.  (Department of Homeland Security; Getty Images)

Sacko, 50, entered the U.S. successful March 1998 successful Miami, and was ordered to beryllium removed from the state by an migration justice successful 2000, according to a national transgression ailment reviewed by Fox News Digital. 

He appealed this decision, but the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed his entreaty and affirmed the removal bid connected Nov. 14, 2002. Despite this order, Sacko did not depart the U.S., authorities said. 

He was arrested by ICE successful 2007, but was not deported due to the fact that helium didn't person a passport from Mauritania and the bureau was incapable to get 1 for him, national prosecutors said. As a result, helium was placed connected supervision and required to regularly study to ICE offices, which helium complied with. 

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Voters formed ballots wrong a polling place. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

In May 2025, investigators obtained voting records for Philadelphia County from the Philadelphia City Commissioners (PCCO) and the Pennsylvania Department of State (DOS) via a subpoena.

Sacko registered to ballot successful 2005, and falsely stated connected respective occasions that helium was a U.S. citizen, authorities allege. 

The voting records showed that helium formed ballots successful respective national elections, including during the wide elections successful 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024. In addition, helium voted successful the 2016 and 2020 superior elections, prosecutors said. 

He voted successful idiosyncratic for each election, but for the 2020 primary, successful which helium voted by mail, the ailment states. 

The tribunal documents diagnostic respective insubstantial elector registration documents that Sacko allegedly filled retired successful which helium provided his name, address, societal information number, address, day of commencement and affirmed that helium was a U.S. citizen, prosecutors said. 

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The Trump medication and Republicans person pushed for lawmakers to walk the SAVE America Act, which would tighten elector registration and recognition requirements to formed ballots successful elections, namely impervious of American citizenship to vote. 

Many Democrats contend the instrumentality would disenfranchise susceptible populations from voting, citing the load of getting documents needed for an ID, portion supporters of the measure enactment that the immense bulk of radical usage photograph ID for mundane tasks.