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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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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 116 points 1 month ago

Democratic leadership is sleepwalking us into a permanent state of authoritarian rule.

[-] French75@slrpnk.net 45 points 1 month ago

That's not fair. They are still working super hard to disarm the people in blue states.

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 96 points 1 month ago

The very act of floating this idea is election fraud. Even if they don't do it, threatening to do it could discourage voters.

[-] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 month ago

Obviously.

This is obviously where it was going.

From day one, from the first lie, to the arming of his own private army, this has been the goal. Obviously.

Americans will be surprised, of course. As always.

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Americans will be surprised, of course. As always.

No one's accused Americans of being smart.

[-] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

"Back when it was step 3, all the alarmists were warning me about how bad step 10 will be. Now that we're at step 7, the logical thing to do is continue to accuse people of being alarmist."

  • 9 out of 10 Americans (real Americans)
[-] Biffsbraincell@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 month ago

Republicans have stolen every presidential election they've won since 2000. There haven't been consequences yet, and the future won't be any different unless we stand up.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They tried damn hard to steal the ones they lost as well, and know that because of the last year they may not get voted for, for another couple decades. They know they can't win, so they are abandoning democracy.

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[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 month ago

Oh no what happens if ICE agents around polling locations are shot dead.

[-] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Everyone else at the polling place leaves and probably doesn't come back.

Polling location(maybe others) are now closed for public safety from the radical left Democrats.

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[-] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

How the fuck did we get to a point where it's normal for the government to say these things?

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Conservatives stopped respecting our Constitution and our nation as a whole.

But they're pretty good at showing up to vote, unlike many other Americans. That, combined with our electoral system being a joke and designed to allow a minority to have control, and you've got our current situation.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago
[-] Saljid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

This is what Hitler's SA did, so that's to be totally expected.

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[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Let everyone you know that mail-in ballots are still an option... but educate them that they must bring the ballot to the post office IN PERSON, and ask the postal staff to post-mark it IN FRONT OF THEM. I have read (please correct me if I'm wrong!) that works around the recent regulation change that allows dropped-off post to be stamped when it's delivered, instead of when it's first dropped off, which is a rat-fucking tactic to increase the likelihood of ballots being marked late, knowing they'll probably take many days from drop-off to delivery.

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[-] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 15 points 1 month ago

It can't be guaranteed that an ICE jackass won't be shipped to the local junkyard.

[-] lemmy_get_my_coat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I'll believe it when I see it

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

You know Jan 6 rioters with guns and pipe bombs who attacked officers got pardon.

[-] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

And employment.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Can't guarantee I won't communicate with my community to show up to the polling stations with a large group of armed citizens to ensure we can vote safely without the interference of terrorists.

Doesn't stop them from ratfucking the votes after they're submitted, but hey, gotta do what we can.

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[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Can you imagine getting abducted when you try to vote? Now you don't have to!

I am sure this will help the voter turnout and is definitely not a thinly veiled threat meant to cause voter suppression.

[-] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago
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[-] itistime@infosec.pub 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Gear up, the hopefools will learn too late.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well I guess we’re going to be exercising our second amendment rights because that’s tyranny.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

This is dicey. If it happens, there will be a lot of problems around the polling areas. The fascists will use that as an excuse to invalidate the results.

[-] French75@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago

They will have 100 different reasons to invalidate the results anyway.

[-] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

They ~~will~~ have 100 different reasons to invalidate the results anyway.

It's crazy to think they don't already have them loaded up.

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[-] BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

Why is she so obsessed with getting ICE agents killed?

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

That's atrocious.

[-] amikulo@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

I don't know what the conditions will be for my blue city in a red state come November. My plan is to vote early and spend election day seeking out ICE at any polling locations to film and heckle them. If they want to arrest me, my vote is already in and it will take them out of play for their role threatening voters. MN is showing us how we massively outnumber them and can stymie their tactics.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Prominent Republicans have been saying this kind of thing, in various ways, since at least the 1980s. If people want to delude themselves and call standard Republican stuff "trumpism" or even more incoherent and nebulous things like "maga", I don't know what to tell them. This is stock conservative/Republican stuff.

This is Paul Weyrich in 1980:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GBAsFwPglw

[-] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I got PTO, i don't mind protecting people and staying at the voting place all day to protect them from the ICE thugs taking them to a concentration camp.

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[-] baller_w@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month 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.

[-] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

At this point they can deploy noone and it will still have the desired effect. People are scared already.

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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 1 month 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

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