A Filipino immigrant living in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty last week to casting an illegal ballot in the 2024 presidential election, and Breitbart News reported Monday that the Biden administration had approved her green card just months before she registered to vote.
Citing information it said it obtained, Breitbart reported that Evelyn Miller, 37, of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, was approved for a green card by the Department of Homeland Security in July 2024. She then registered to vote on October 9, 2024, and voted in person on Election Day, November 5, 2024, according to the outlet.
The Department of Justice announced her guilty plea to illegal voting last week, Breitbart reported. The outlet said Miller confessed to FBI agents during the investigation that she registered online ahead of the election and voted in person on Election Day.
The case lands in a state that decided the presidency by a razor-thin margin. Breitbart noted that the 2024 presidential race between President Donald Trump and then-Vice President Kamala Harris was decided in Pennsylvania by slightly under 122,000 votes.
A cabinet secretary weighs in
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin issued a statement on the case, which Breitbart quoted.
“This alien from the Philippines pleaded guilty to illegally voting in the 2024 election in Pennsylvania,” Mullin said. “Thanks to the hard work of the men and women of HSI, as well as our partners at the Department of Justice, this alien will soon face justice for her efforts to subvert our elections. American elections are for Americans only.”
The reference to HSI is to Homeland Security Investigations, the principal investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
How the timeline lines up
According to Breitbart’s account, the sequence runs from a green card approval in July 2024 to a voter registration in early October and a ballot cast a month later. That timeline — a lawful permanent resident status granted by one administration, followed by an illegal vote in the election that same fall — is at the center of the outlet’s reporting.
A green card confers lawful permanent residence, not citizenship. Noncitizens, including green card holders, are generally barred from registering to vote or casting ballots in federal elections. The specific charge in Miller’s case was illegal voting, and she entered a guilty plea last week, per the Justice Department announcement cited by Breitbart.
Breitbart did not report additional details about how or when the alleged registration was processed, what flagged the case for investigators, or whether any other charges are pending. The outlet’s account of the green card approval came from information it said it had learned, attributed to its own reporting rather than to a court filing or an official statement.
Pennsylvania’s narrow margin
Pennsylvania has been one of the most closely watched battlegrounds in recent presidential cycles, and the 2024 result fit that pattern. Breitbart pegged the Trump–Harris gap in the state at just under 122,000 votes.
Single cases of illegal voting are typically far too small to affect a statewide outcome, and neither the Justice Department announcement nor DHS characterized this case as anything other than an individual prosecution. Mullin’s statement framed it as part of a broader enforcement effort, describing the vote as an attempt to “subvert our elections” and crediting HSI personnel and DOJ partners with bringing the case forward.
The plea makes Miller one of a relatively small number of people prosecuted federally for illegal voting in the 2024 cycle. Election law experts have long noted that such cases surface in every election cycle but almost never in numbers that would swing a race, even a close one.
What’s next
Miller has pleaded guilty and, according to Mullin’s statement, will “soon face justice” — meaning sentencing is expected to follow. Breitbart did not report a scheduled sentencing date or the potential penalties she faces.
The case also raises questions the outlet’s reporting did not answer: how Miller’s registration moved through Pennsylvania’s system, whether any verification steps missed her noncitizen status, and whether immigration consequences will follow the criminal plea. Immigration attorneys frequently note that a criminal conviction can carry collateral consequences for a green card holder’s status, but no such action has been announced.
For now, the publicly confirmed elements are narrow: a guilty plea to illegal voting, a confession to FBI agents about registering online and voting in person, and a statement from the DHS secretary praising the investigation. The green card timeline comes from Breitbart’s reporting, which the outlet attributed to its own information.
Requests for additional comment from DHS, DOJ and Pennsylvania election officials were not detailed in the source material. Breitbart’s John Binder reported the story.
Source: www.breitbart.com — https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/09/21/exlusive-bidens-dhs-gave-green-card-immigrant-months-before-she-illegally-voted-2024-election/