silence7Escalate on the Trump Admin’s ‘ICE at the Polls’ Plans Now
“ICE at the polls” is a mostly empty threat, because there are only about 22000 ICE agents, and the USA has about 4-5 times that many polling places for voting. They don’t have enough agents to put even one at every polling place. Yes they could target the “blue” areas and ignore the “red” areas, but still they just don’t have enough agents to stop Americans from voting.
In a close election, tipping a few tens of thousands of votes in the right state could in fact alter the outcome. So they’d target the closest swing state, and pick precincts with large minority populations.
CorrectAliasMaybe, but I don’t think “tens of thousands” would be blocked from voting through ICE simply being at the polling locations. Maybe that would be possible through spreading fear that they might be there, that sure sounds a lot like what’s happening with this post.
First_ThunderIf ice starts randomly detaining people before they can vote for “suspicion of being an illegal immigrant with fake documents”, they could actually have an impact?
ICE concentrating on Atlanta would be enough to keep Georgia red.
And they wouldn’t need 22,000 to do it.
CharlesDarwinPretty sure this was an age-old favorite conservative tactic in the Jim Crow South - station sheriffs, etc at polling locations.
This is why the conservatives looooooove the idea.
Exactly this. The dweebs in the Republican Party will strike with near-surgical precision. It doesn’t take much to tip elections in our bullshit system.