Trained to Protect Immigrants From ICE. Now the Midterm Elections

The Intercept ^ | 9/22/26 | Jessica Washington

[spintreebob]

ICE watchers across the country who watched federal agents shoot people in the streets and fought to drive ICE from their cities are turning their new skills against the next authoritarian threat from the Trump administration: election interference.

Volunteers who showed up a few months ago asking, “Where do I buy a whistle?” are now trained and committed members of an “ICE Watch” movement, said Zach Mueller, whose anti-authoritarian group States at the Core started hosting trainings earlier this year. “They’re not in the normal cast of characters that have been showing up to rallies over the last several decades,” said Mueller. Now, they’re planning to fan out to their local polling places and defend their neighbors’ rights to vote.

The ICE-watchers-turned-poll-watchers are preparing for the worst despite a temporary win the voting rights movement secured last week, when the Supreme Court upheld a decision to block a Trump administration rule that would have let the U.S. Postal Service refuse to deliver ballots from states that don’t share their voter rolls with the federal government, among other new constraints, which advocates warned would lead to chaos and uncounted votes. While that plan was foiled for the midterms, other electoral threats abound.

Levin’s organization, which co-sponsors the No Kings protests, has launched “election protection” training programs to help people prepare to mobilize for different election sabotage scenarios, including federal immigration agents at the polls, and Mueller’s group has expanded its trainings to include election protection trainings known as “Beyond ICE Watch.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: domesticterrorism; domesticterrorists

[spintreebob]

“Ultimately this is going to come down to: Do you have a sufficient number of people organized?” said Levin.

All the other side needs is for 1 (just 1) ICE or Trump person to seem to go beserk on a cellphone camera.

[butlerweave]

Terrorists

[BenLurkin]

Trained to Protect Immigrants From ICE = Asking to get shot.

[AZJeep]

I got mistakenly at one their AZ sites.
They tell you where to vote and warn you if ICE is around the voting place.
Warning illegals not to vote there!
Like they can vote anywhere?!

[Parley Baer]

They left off the “illegal” part of the immigrant.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Exercise the 2A.

[Williams]

In other words a full-blown leftist insurrection.

[gibsonguy]

“ICE watchers across the country who watched federal agents shoot people in the streets“

We need a raid conducted in the building where this trash came from.

[packrat35]

We have been in a full blown insurrection ever since President Trump was first elected in his first term and it hasn’t stopped.

All the while, MAGA is being accused of doing what they are doing and no coverage or it is treated as normal to do what they are doing.

[No name given]

Pronto.

[elpadre]

Much like the hippie’s of the 60’s and 70’s which was an organized movement protesting ALL authority – parents, morality, school, municipal, church and all levels of government. Think Weather Underground, Black Power, SNCC, et al.

[elpadre]

Much like the hippie’s of the 60’s and 70’s which was an organized movement protesting ALL authority – parents, morality, school, municipal, church and all levels of government. Think Weather Underground, Black Power, SNCC, et al.

[elpadre]

Much like the hippie’s of the 60’s and 70’s which was an organized movement protesting ALL authority – parents, morality, school, municipal, church and all levels of government. Think Weather Underground, Black Power, SNCC, et al.

[SkyDancer]

They’re illegal aliens, not migrants the way woke folks like to portray them.

[HIDEK6]

Volunteers who showed up a few months ago asking, “Where do I buy a whistle?”

In case you were wondering about the native intelligence of these people ...

[i_robot73]

>They left off the “illegal” part of the immigrant.

Incorrect. The proper term is ‘criminal illegal ALIEN’

Unfort., the (R)N(C) has, again, let the Leftards (the Left having ZERO to do w/ Liberal [REF: Liberty]) bastardize the English language and Law.

[PIF]

While that plan was foiled for the midterms, other electoral threats abound.

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Prime threat is MAGA voters trying to vote.

[spintreebob]

By personality, some people LOVE to be in an exciting, blood pressure raising environment when they vote.

By personality, when they think of going to vote, some people don’t want it to be an exciting, blood pressure raising experience. They will not vote for that reason.

What percentage of voters on each side seek to avoid the blood pressure raising experience?

Of course, there are other “non-issue” factors. Most notably
1) the Weather
2) Long lines. Many potential voters drive to the polling place, see the long line, and drive away.

Major arguments for both Early in-person voting and mail-in voting are the weather, long lines....and blood pressure raising confrontations on election day.