The illegal alien from Montenegro whom Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Rep. John Larson, and other Connecticut Democrats breathlessly defended against ICE has been caught registered to vote in the Nutmeg State, falsely claiming U.S. citizenship on his voter registration form.

Sead “Seyo” Cecunjanin, a West Hartford restaurant and dry-cleaning business owner, was detained by ICE on June 20, 2026, outside a Dunkin’ Donuts on Park Road.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, Cecunjanin is a criminal illegal alien who entered the United States illegally in 1997 using a fraudulent Dutch passport.

An immigration judge issued a final order of removal against him that same year. He has a prior DUI conviction and reportedly left the country in 2024 only to be released back in under the Biden administration despite that longstanding removal order.

But you wouldn’t know any of that from listening to Blumenthal and the Connecticut Democrat machine. They rushed to his defense, organizing press conferences, rallying the community, and painting ICE as the villain for daring to enforce the law against a so-called “law-abiding” pillar of the community.

Blumenthal called the ICE action “overreaching – inhumanely and illegally,” while Larson labeled the arrest “heartbreaking” and bragged about standing up to ICE. They helped secure his release just days later on July 3.

Now, the mask is off. A voter registration form obtained and circulated by the West Hartford Republicans and “Connecticut Citizens Against Ned Lamont” shows Cecunjanin registered to vote in Connecticut on September 27, 2018.

He checked “yes” affirming U.S. citizenship, listed his West Hartford address, and the state accepted and processed it the same day. The form carries a clear warning right above his signature: knowingly making a false citizenship claim is punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.

A 2018 Connecticut voter registration application appears to show Sead “Seyo” Cecunjanin affirming under penalty of law that he was a U.S. citizen (West Hartford GOP) Screenshot

West Hartford Republicans wrote on X:

Democrats claim this is impossible and doesn’t happen, and is a “right wing conspiracy”. Unfortunately they are only obfuscating the truth and deceiving the public, and now the West Hartford RTC has the receipts to prove it.

Given the news in recent weeks about ICE activity in West Hartford, the RTC filed the attached Freedom of Information Act Request on July 16. The Registrars of Voters office of West Hartford responded to our request with the attached voter registration card for Sead/Seyo Cecunjanin, who according to D.H.S. is an illegal alien with a final order of removal who has been living illegally in the United States for decades.

This voter registration card reveals that Sead Cecunjanin misrepresented that he was a citizen of the United States in order to obtain a driver’s license. It reveals an illegal alien was an unaffiliated, ACTIVE registered voter in West Hartford who could have walked into his designated polling location – King Philip School – and voted in West Hartford in any of our elections from 2018 to 2023.

The Registrar’s office was unable to respond to the portion of our request relating to the mechanism by which an illegal alien was registered to vote in our town. However, careful examination of the Connecticut Voter Registration System card shows that on 9/28/18, a user named “ROUSSEAU” entered the following under a memo description line: “NEW/DMV Request received on 09/27/2018”

The Bottom Line: A “request” came in from a Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles and a day later, an illegal alien was an active, registered voter in West Hartford.

Even a Democrat can put two and two together on this one!

West Hartford RTC Announcement on the Discovery of an Illegal Immigrant as a Registered Voter of West Hartford

Democrats claim this is impossible and doesn’t happen, and is a “right wing conspiracy”. Unfortunately they are only obfuscating the truth and deceiving the public, and… pic.twitter.com/b4xACRA8PQ

— West Hartford Republicans (@WestHartfordGOP) July 21, 2026

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