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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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