Overview
- Jose Ceballos-Armendariz, a lawful permanent resident in Kansas, pleaded guilty to three counts of disorderly election conduct after prosecution by the state attorney general’s office.
- He accepted a plea deal that includes a $2,000 fine and a six-month suspended sentence, which means no jail time if he follows probation terms.
- DHS confirmed the conviction and said false claims to U.S. citizenship can make a noncitizen removable, though it has not announced any action in his case.
- Records show he checked yes to U.S. citizenship on a 1999 Kansas voter registration form, yet he marked no to ever claiming citizenship on a naturalization application filed in February 2025.
- DHS highlighted the SAVE program, a status-check system for government agencies, saying it has processed over 60 million voter verification queries since April 2025 and flagged more than 24,000 potential noncitizen registrants.