Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehended a Honduran national accused of registering to vote illegally.
Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores, 30, has been arrested and charged with false claim to U.S. citizenship and fraudulent voter registration, both of which are felonies. According to a statement from the Department of Justice, he is a “lawful permanent resident living in the San Fernando Valley” but is not a “U.S. citizen.”
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🚨 HOLY SMOKES. The Honduran national who illegally registered to vote in California previously obstructed and THREATENED ICE AGENTS
Thank GOD he’s arrested 👏🏻
“Just a few months ago, Rivera Flores pled guilty to obstruction for BLOCKING an ICE agent’s access to an immigration… pic.twitter.com/qQBDP9GZxX
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 28, 2026
“Noncitizens who commit fraud so they can vote in American elections do so in violation of federal law and should expect to be prosecuted. Let this criminal complaint serve as a reminder that the Justice Department stands ready to enforce the laws Congress enacted to ensure only American citizens vote in federal elections,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli vows that Flores’s arrest is “the first of many to come.”
“Unfortunately, because states like California allow non-citizens to easily register to vote and receive a ballot by mail, there’s no telling how many non-citizens are currently registered to vote. We again renew our request that California immediately comply with our requests to audit their voter rolls so that all voters can have confidence in our elections.”
States like California do not screen voter registration applications for citizenship. Every non-citizen registered to vote dilutes a lawful citizen’s vote. We need to audit California’s dirty voter rolls. https://t.co/VFdi3XrXrs
— F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) August 28, 2026
“States like California do not screen voter registration applications for citizenship. Every non-citizen registered to vote dilutes a lawful citizen’s vote. We need to audit California’s dirty voter rolls,” he added in an X post.
This isn’t the suspect’s first run-in with the law, either.
“In February 2026, Rivera physically disrupted immigration law enforcement operations at the federal building in Camarillo, was issued a misdemeanor citation to which he pleaded guilty and was placed on one year of probation,” the DOJ press release revealed. “In April 2026, Rivera sent a federal agent a series of text messages, which read in part, ‘Your not the good guy I can’t wait until the mid terms you dont have qualified immunity then we can start and indict all you guys one bye one.’ Rivera continued texting the federal agent until July 2026.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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