US homeland security secretary Markwayne Mullin on Tuesday said that federal immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) officers could be deployed to polling sites across the country.
Speaking to reporters in New York, Mullin said: “ICE isn’t there to patrol the polling places. We’re there to enforce specific threats.”
For months, Democrats and voting rights groups have warned that the Trump administration might attempt to deploy federal agents to polling locations in an effort to intimidate voters and depress turnout ahead of the November midterm elections.
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“The only reason why we would be at polling places is if there is a threat to that polling place or we’re serving a warrant on someone that we have been actively tracking down,” Mullin said. “ICE’s job is immigration, customs enforcement. That’s their job … if we’re serving a warrant we will be where we need to be.”
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"ICE isn’t there to patrol the polling places. We’re there to enforce specific threats.”
Enforce specific threats. What a weird thing for law enforcement to say. Not protect against threats. Prevent threats. But ENFORCE THREATS
Their warrants are bullshit, they’ll find someone with a “last known address” that obviously isn’t in use in battleground districts and send ICE there to depress Dem turnout.
If you see ICE at your polling place, that means voting is even more important
I don’t mean to sound dramatic but this might be one of the most important elections in US history. It’s absolutely going to set the course for the country
It’s important, but no more than others. The filibuster means it takes 60 in the Senate to do anything other than a budget.
We need to gain as many seats as possible ahead of next election. That’s the one that’s going to be huge, because a top ticket progressive drives primary turnout as well as general.
That’s why Bernie was so insistent on taking it to the end, and Martin has said this whole time they’re not calling it till every state has a primary/caucus.
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And obviously bullshit this year, is test run for bullshit in 2 years.
That’s why we need to show it’s not effective
“ICE isn’t there to patrol the polling places. We’re there to enforce specific threats”… is he outright saying they are there to intimidate voters? I knew they would be pulling this card.
nazis hide with masks,
Cowardly traitors afraid,
They choose violence
“enforce specific threats” …yeah that’s not good
It looks like every state has some kind of early in person voting. If they could just rig entire elections they wouldn’t be so worried about them.
Just spreading the idea that ICE might be active near polling places on Election Day should be prosecutable as voter intimidation.
This was always the plan
Free democratic elections.
My friends and I have been saying our new hobby should be suing the government as often and as many ways as we can so we can quit our day jobs. Looks like our wish is coming true.
We all thought that. No news here, just a plan unfolding. Pre-massaging the rage so when it comes out everyone will already have had their kick at the outrage can and it’ll be less of a bang and more of a whimper.
In Texas you can vote early from October 19th to October 30th, 7 a.m. to 7pm. There is absolutely no reason you can’t find the 20 minutes it will take to vote sometime between 7am and 7pm from October 19th to October 30th. If you live in one of these counties, you can vote at any polling station in the county you reside in.
Lets see if the american public are as tough as they claim against terrorists foreign and domestic.
2A
What in anyone’s name would cause a noncitizen to want to vote? There’s nothing good in it for them to do it and loads of possible bad. Negative motivation. Yet the GOP wants you to believe that convoys of illegals have been thronging ti the polls. Beyond ridiculous.
