Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was asked on Face the Nation over the weekend whether he had plans to send ICE thugs to polling places in Democratic-leaning areas, where they were likely to deter some citizens from voting.
He hedged on what his department's plans are, and offered talking points about making sure non-citizens weren't voting (an infinitessimal problem) so that only approved citizens get to exercise their constitutional rights.
As we have seen over and over again under the Absolutely Corrupt Trump Regime™, ICE frequently abducts citizens and legal residents as well as undocumented aliens, quickly spiriting them far away from family and legal representation, making no attempt to notify their loved ones what has happened to them. Even having proof of citizenship is of no avail if one's skin happens to be the wrong color.
The deterrent effect of ICE thugs at the polls, especially on people targeted by the present regime's ethnic cleansing policy, cannot be discounted.
Add to that the Republican playbook of shouting unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud any time an election doesn't go the way Republicans like, plus the Trumpsters' unconstitutional demands to states to turn over their voter rolls and equipment, and I worry that as soon as polls close, ICE agents will be seizing voting machines and ballots before anyone has a chance to stop them.
From razing the East Wing to renaming the Kennedy Center to countless examples of graft and fraud to stealing box upon box upon box of classified papers off to Mar-a-lago, it's the way the Trump regime works.
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