A Honduran green-card holder in Los Angeles has been charged with fraudulent voter registration and falsely claiming US citizenship, in what a Trump administration prosecutor described as the first case in a wider election-fraud crackdown. The White House used the case to challenge critics who argue non-citizen voting is negligible, while the charges have renewed a federal demand to inspect California’s voter rolls.

Darwin Jonathan Rivera Flores faces two felony counts and possible deportation if convicted, though the Justice Department says he did not cast a ballot. Prosecutors allege he registered despite not being a US citizen; California officials had not commented in the supplied article. The case comes amid a dispute between the Justice Department and California over access to voter-registration records and the adequacy of safeguards against ineligible registrations.