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submitted 6 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

Threat of stationing immigration agents around voting locations has become a concern as it can be a deterrent to legal residents of color who are concerned they may be harassed by federal agents

The White House refused to rule out following through on the threat of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents being sent out to “surround the polls” when voters cast ballots in this November’s midterm elections as a way of depressing Democratic turnout and boosting chances of Republican victories in the House of Representatives and Senate.

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday said she could offer “no guarantee” that ICE personnel would not be stationed at polling sites when Americans are in the process of choosing whether to extend the Republican stranglehold on power at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

She had been asked about former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s recent call for Trump to deploy ICE around election sites on his War Room podcast on Tuesday, just days after Trump himself called for a Republican “takeover” of vote-counting in Democratic-led states and municipalities.

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[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 months ago

Imagine the optics of these rabid dogs pepper spraying people in line to vote

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

The optics don't need to get any worse, they're already murdering people in broad daylight...

[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I guess we're kind if past the Ghandi trap's efficacy at this point. I don't know why I keep reverting to previous stages of how this escalated

[-] Triumph@fedia.io 4 points 6 months ago

"Can't guarantee we won't continue to violate the law with impunity."

[-] baller_w@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

Honest question: there’s not that many of them to cover a substantial number of polling stations, are there? If memory serves, there like 16k agents.

Seems like the WH is on its bullshit again.

[-] Tower@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

The threat of appearance will be enough for a not insignificant number of people. But also, they can use historical voting numbers to selectively target certain locations. No need to send anyone to the R+17 or the D+22 districts.

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Sounds like a good reason to pretend to support their bullshit and go vote against it anyway.....register independent then vote however

The declaration of party only helps metrics not the actual outcome of the vote

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I’m sure it doesn’t matter what party you register as, but this is purely racist.

They’re not saying they’ll interfere with elections but they may kidnap anyone who looks like an undocumented immigrant who shouldn’t vote. Generally that’s been people with brown skin.

As a white person who is registered Democrat, I wouldn’t be worried at all. However if I were Hispanic or otherwise not obviously white, I sure as hell would be, and may decide I can’t risk voting

This is exactly what Black Panthers tried to solve half a century ago

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Or differently sounds like a good reason to have black panthers show up and watch ice

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

If you register independent that prevents you from participating in the large party primaries in many (most/all?) states. You can only vote in the primary for your registered party. So that also locks you out of at least attempting to prevent the Democrats from incessantly fielding dumbass GOP-lite candidates like they've been doing.

Theoretically if you register as Republican that also allows you to surreptitiously torpedo their worst candidates in their primaries, but it's unlikely we'll get enough trolls on board to swing the needle meaningfully with that strategy.

[-] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Thats not a warning intended to keep the public safe, it's a threat intended to get the public to give up on democracy

[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Fucking brown shirts

[-] Hayduke@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

We the People of the United States can.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Every voter come armed.

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