{"id":80225,"date":"2026-10-20T05:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T10:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/federal-efforts-over-alleged-noncitizen-voting-escalate-with-california-arrests-first-thing\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T10:55:05","slug":"federal-efforts-over-alleged-noncitizen-voting-escalate-with-california-arrests-first-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/federal-efforts-over-alleged-noncitizen-voting-escalate-with-california-arrests-first-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal efforts over alleged noncitizen voting escalate with California arrests | First Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DoJ has charged 28 green card holders in California, accusing them of fraudulently registering to vote. Plus, is the world really ready for AI actors?<\/p>\n<p>Good morning. The US Department of Justice has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/19\/california-illegal-voting-charges-doj\">charged 28 green card holders<\/a> in California, accusing them of fraudulently registering to vote and casting illegal ballots. The arrests \u2013 11 people are in custody \u2013 mark the latest escalation in federal efforts against alleged noncitizen voting.<\/p>\n<p>The crackdown comes days after the DOJ sued California to block the state from tabulating certain ballots in November\u2019s midterms. California\u2019s secretary of state, Shirley Weber, called the demands \u201coutrageous\u201d, pointing out that federal officials have spent months making \u201cvague and unsubstantiated allegations\u201d. Democrats and voting rights groups say the administration is laying the groundwork to sow doubt over November\u2019s election results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How are Congress members being targeted before the midterms?<\/strong> More than three dozen members of US Congress have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/19\/white-powder-envelopes-congress\">had their offices targeted with envelopes containing white powder<\/a>, less than three weeks before the election, as federal agents try to identify who is behind the campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has Donald Trump said about the French protests?<\/strong> At a rally in Kansas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/19\/trump-france-protests\">Trump described France<\/a> as a once-great nation that had been \u201cconquered, looted, and burned to the ground by migrants, jihadists, and communists\u201d. Earlier in the day, Trump repeated his baseless claim that migrants had \u201ctaken over\u201d France, and also claimed that \u201cParis is going to be a Muslim city very soon\u201d. Muslims make up 10-15% of the population of the capital.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/20\/first-thing-federal-efforts-over-alleged-noncitizen-voting-escalate-with-california-arrests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DoJ has charged 28 green card holders in California, accusing them of fraudulently registering to vote. Plus, is the world really ready for AI actors? Good morning. The US Department of Justice has charged 28 green card holders in California, accusing them of fraudulently registering to vote and casting illegal ballots. The arrests \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"Federal efforts over alleged noncitizen voting escalate with California arrests | First Thing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/federal-efforts-over-alleged-noncitizen-voting-escalate-with-california-arrests-first-thing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Federal efforts over alleged noncitizen voting escalate with California arrests | First Thing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}