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.
How would that lead to a good outcome?
I mean, they aren’t leaving us a whole lot of boxes left to choose from.
Dead Nazis is always a good outcome.
The only good nazi is a dead nazi.
But seriously, people giving their lives for democracy and so that others can enjoy the inalienable rights they were promised is a good outcome.
It’s the only possible good outcome from this scenario.
If your take on this is genuinely “do nothing, give up democracy, because they might kill even more people than they already have” then you’re a coward and your rights and democracy were always going to be taken from you anyway.
ICE agents should not come to the polls on election day unless they are ready to die for it.
ICE agents would get to ask God firsthand about whether what they’re doing is right.
There is no God or hell. They would just be dead Nazis. I’m ok with that.
How would it lead to a bad outcome?