Immigration attorney blows the whistle on how foreign nationals end up registered to vote — automatically.

"As an immigration attorney, I have represented a lot of foreign nationals who have been in this exact same situation, and I will explain how it goes. Number one, the person mistakenly thinks that they are a United States citizen. It happens. It happens to kids who are brought in at a very young age. Nobody ever explains to them their immigration situation, and they completely assimilate into the American society and represent themselves as an American. For two, they go and get a driver's license. Especially in the state of Florida, back in the day, it's pretty easy to go to the DMV and get a driver's license. And while you're at the DMV, the DMV clerk used to automatically register you to vote.

And a lot of times, I've actually seen voter registration cards filled out by the DMV clerk that have misspelled the foreign national's name or got their date of birth wrong, and you know it wasn't the foreign national themselves that completed that voter registration. Then from there, the foreign national receives the actual voter registration card, and in their mind, since they have received the card, they think that they're already allowed to vote, and it's not a problem to vote. So this happens a lot. Now, whether or not he's going to be prosecuted for any type of voter fraud or for a false claim to United States citizenship depends on the caseload and the priority list at the U.S. Attorney's Office.

They have to determine whether or not they are actually going to go after him and what charges they are going to bring to him and whether or not this is the right resource that the government should be focusing on. I've seen cases where the U.S. government has gone after and prosecuted those, and I've seen other cases where they have told us behind closed doors, stay your status, we're not going after you. So it really just depends."