ICE won’t rule out making arrests at polling places during the November midterm elections in the event of “an active public safety threat,” the Department of Homeland Security admitted to Raw Story.The details of what would constitute such a threat were left vague.The statement comes as U.S. Immigra...
Oh boy if Federal officers start yanking people out of voting booths or intercepting people on their way to vote on election day we are going to have a fucking shit show.
Who? Who do you imagine is going to do shit?
Nobody’s done anything. We have an endless war. We have a personal Nazi army with more funding than the Marine Corps. They’ve already killed citizens in the street, on camera, with no consequences. Nobody I know has ever expressed a willingness to do anything more than vote, and maybe attend a local, peaceful, pointless protest, if it won’t inconvenience their Saturday plans.
Kick the war off in style
If they’re smart (ha) then they’ll just generate a bunch of buzz and fear about how ICE might be out and about on election day, so that as many people as possible from vulnerable populations (aka non-male non-white people) are too scared for their lives and freedom to go vote.
They will do that for sure, in fact, this very story might be one of the first broadside in that battle. They will also arrest a few. Violently. Any non-white, likely democratic voters, will think twice before they go to the polls.