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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Philip Marcelo

New York state woman charged with voting illegally says she recently learned she wasn’t a citizen

Noncitizen Voting Arrest - (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A Syracuse, New York, woman who says she only recently learned she wasn’t born in the U.S. has been charged with voting illegally, one of the latest arrests touted by the Trump administration as it hunts for noncitizen voters ahead of the midterm elections.

Marva Cook was adopted as a toddler and had always assumed she was a U.S. citizen, she told Homeland Security investigators earlier this month, according to the criminal complaint.

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