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tableturner

(1,827 posts)
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 09:47 AM 21 hrs ago

ICE constraints in funding bill MUST include NO ICE or other Feds near polling places!

Not DEMANDING that would be utterly incompetent by the Democrats! It's probably the main thing we need to do to save democracy! Let's face it: the upcoming disruptions/corruption of the elections by ICE and the other Feds is the bottom line point behind the brutal immigration crackdown. They want Feds in Blue precincts in key races to scare voters away, close and disrupt polling places, etc., to steal the election. THAT'S how they will try to do it, and we MUST prevent that!

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ICE constraints in funding bill MUST include NO ICE or other Feds near polling places! (Original Post) tableturner 21 hrs ago OP
Can you believe we are in a place where we have to demand these things, and we're not Scrivener7 21 hrs ago #1
Nope. ❤️👋 littlemissmartypants 18 hrs ago #26
They have to be trained and not wear masks leftstreet 21 hrs ago #2
It is already a felony for ICE to be near polling places. gab13by13 21 hrs ago #3
REITERATE it, and make sure ALL Fed are prohibited from doing so! tableturner 21 hrs ago #4
I just did. gab13by13 21 hrs ago #6
Not good enough! Hold NOTHING back to save our country. If not now, when? Jeez... tableturner 20 hrs ago #7
Pam Bondi won't prosecute them gab13by13 20 hrs ago #9
Yes...do nothing...the blueprint for so many Democratic defeats! tableturner 20 hrs ago #12
I'm not sure about this. bluestarone 20 hrs ago #8
Andrew Weissmann said yesterday it was a felony. gab13by13 20 hrs ago #10
Did he mention how far? bluestarone 20 hrs ago #11
As heard on TH they should simply keep all ice activities within 10 miles of our border. nt yaesu 21 hrs ago #5
What's TH, please? TY littlemissmartypants 18 hrs ago #25
It's my understanding that is in the proposal by Democrats. mzmolly 20 hrs ago #13
But not for ALL Federal agencies, and that is a MUST! Can't leave this to chance. tableturner 19 hrs ago #15
Agreed. mzmolly 19 hrs ago #16
Not within 1 mile. Old Crank 19 hrs ago #14
Good Idea But... 2na fisherman 19 hrs ago #17
Can you imagine people being arrested MadameButterfly 19 hrs ago #18
Just his statement alone is designed to suppress the vote. littlemissmartypants 18 hrs ago #23
Call Jeffries and Schumer MaineNative 19 hrs ago #19
Hi, MN... littlemissmartypants 18 hrs ago #22
all they have left is voter suppression and intimidation. OGBuzz 19 hrs ago #20
Don't hurt me, but... littlemissmartypants 19 hrs ago #21
enforcement would be the issue southmost 18 hrs ago #24
The Para-Military Goon-Squads are essentially Lawless.. so we would Ars Longa 16 hrs ago #30
Senate and House Democrats have just released their demanded changes to rein in ICE. LetMyPeopleVote 18 hrs ago #27
Our people cave too often...the OP was to make sure it STAYS there and applies to ALL Federal agents! tableturner 16 hrs ago #28
Why we need to arm up and show up Chakaconcarne 16 hrs ago #29
This particular threat is especially bad because it will keep people from voting. They'll either figure they look Vinca 15 hrs ago #31
MaddowBlog-Eyeing midterms, Steve Bannon expects ICE agents, troops at local polling sites LetMyPeopleVote 13 hrs ago #32

Scrivener7

(58,850 posts)
1. Can you believe we are in a place where we have to demand these things, and we're not
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 09:52 AM
21 hrs ago

absolutely sure we'll get them?

tableturner

(1,827 posts)
4. REITERATE it, and make sure ALL Fed are prohibited from doing so!
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:16 AM
21 hrs ago

This is too important. We have to be sure. If they steal this one, it's over!

gab13by13

(31,611 posts)
6. I just did.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:23 AM
21 hrs ago

Schumer and Jeffries need to say that when Democrats regain power they will prosecute ICE goons who went to polling places.

gab13by13

(31,611 posts)
9. Pam Bondi won't prosecute them
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:39 AM
20 hrs ago

what else do you suggest we do? Threaten to prosecute them when impartial people get back in DOJ.

Have the governor protect polling places with the National Guard? Not all states have Democratic governors.

bluestarone

(21,621 posts)
8. I'm not sure about this.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:35 AM
20 hrs ago

I'm thinking, (tell me if i'm wrong) they can be around so many feet (YARDS) away from poling place. I'm thinking they will be x amount of feet away just to be legal. I want them Many miles away. NO MASKS as well. It has to be CLEAR rules with no LOOPHOLES!!

yaesu

(9,121 posts)
5. As heard on TH they should simply keep all ice activities within 10 miles of our border. nt
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 10:20 AM
21 hrs ago

mzmolly

(52,713 posts)
13. It's my understanding that is in the proposal by Democrats.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:07 AM
20 hrs ago

It’s labeled sensitive locations or something along those lines.

tableturner

(1,827 posts)
15. But not for ALL Federal agencies, and that is a MUST! Can't leave this to chance.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:33 AM
19 hrs ago

If we lose this election, democracy will be finished! Use EVERYTHING at our disposal.

2na fisherman

(275 posts)
17. Good Idea But...
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:40 AM
19 hrs ago

Who is going to enforce this? Local police and/or state national guard? So will there be gun battles between them and the start of a new Civil War fought over state's rights to run elections? ICE and company have already shown they are willing to kill citizens who they deem "domestic terrorists." So they will welcome the idea of this thin pretext for engaging in mass body count events using the full might of the Federal government armed against them. I hope the Dem leadership has a plan for this.

MadameButterfly

(3,864 posts)
18. Can you imagine people being arrested
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:01 PM
19 hrs ago

while standing in voting lines? Would they consider that an election?
Of course, they don't even need to do that. They can make people afraid to come out in the first place.

It's amazing hearing Steve Bannon bragging that ICE will be around voting sites. He implies that somehow ICE agents will be able to tell just from looking who is voting legitimately and who isn't, or whether there is some shenanigans in the vote count. That this is how to prevent election fraud.

Or is he just admitting out loud that they are going to scare people of color away from voting, or even just a percentage of people in Blue states regardless of color? And is this what the MAGA base considers a free and fair election?

littlemissmartypants

(32,769 posts)
23. Just his statement alone is designed to suppress the vote.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:40 PM
18 hrs ago

It's The use of propagandists who make general threats on behalf of the regime to create FUD.*

The statements don't have to be reality based.

It's a classic authoritarian tactic; engineered despair.

The idea is to have us de facto destroy ourselves via autogenocide aka social murder.

That saves them the trouble.

Love, peace and shelter, MadameButterfly.
❤️pants
RESIST!!✊️

*FEAR UNCERTAINTY & DOUBT


I understand. Trump's USA though? Let's not hand it over in its entirety just yet, please.

And keep in mind that authoritarian propagandist efforts are geared towards several things. The health care changes, removal of environmental protections etc are all part of a concept called autogenocide.

It's their push away from American values and towards Christian Nationalism. This attempts to overpower us with their unpopular and easily refuted attempts at separating us as they try pushing us away from goodness and hope towards engineered despair.

This creates a world where finding good becomes useless in one's mind and the stress it creates distracts from our ability to organize, see a better tomorrow and resist their efforts.

Awareness of autogenocide exposes how nation states and rogue governments try to drive their populations to destroy themselves. Whether through poisoned environments, collapsing healthcare, misinformation & engineered despair.

It's mass death by design & by the outright neglect of society. It's also known as Social Murder.

Of course, it's OK to get angry as long as we don't stew ourselves in it. Keeping in mind that anger is really fear in translation. So let's stay strong and encouraged because it doesn't matter what they do as long as we stay aware of their attempts at making us destroy ourselves and each other.

We won't let them win.

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20988678

MaineNative

(81 posts)
19. Call Jeffries and Schumer
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:09 PM
19 hrs ago

Capitol Switchboard - 202-224-3121

Tell these toads to stop ICE and ban them from polling places!

littlemissmartypants

(32,769 posts)
22. Hi, MN...
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:26 PM
18 hrs ago

I used to live in Rockland. 👋

What's the latest from ME on the ICE invasion?

Are you doing okay?


❤️🤍💙
🗳❌️👑

littlemissmartypants

(32,769 posts)
21. Don't hurt me, but...
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:23 PM
19 hrs ago

I'm just wondering how many of us have actually communicated our suggestions for the ICE negotiations to leadership?

Or are we mostly just screaming into the void?

Because I see lots of great ideas and I wonder what happens to them after they drop off of the main page here at the Democratic Underground.

Thank you for the discussion, tableturner.

❤️🤍💙
🗳❌️👑

southmost

(832 posts)
24. enforcement would be the issue
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:42 PM
18 hrs ago

ice is operating above the law, these demands wont be respected

Ars Longa

(495 posts)
30. The Para-Military Goon-Squads are essentially Lawless.. so we would
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 03:23 PM
16 hrs ago

have to pre-hammer-out an enforcement mechnanism that would work!
(Local LEO's?-- Nat'l Guard?)

LetMyPeopleVote

(176,617 posts)
27. Senate and House Democrats have just released their demanded changes to rein in ICE.
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:56 PM
18 hrs ago

Keeping ICE from polling places is in this plan



tableturner

(1,827 posts)
28. Our people cave too often...the OP was to make sure it STAYS there and applies to ALL Federal agents!
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 03:11 PM
16 hrs ago

We MUST keep the pressure on! Use EVERY bit of pressure available to us...if they steal this one, it's all over!

Vinca

(53,542 posts)
31. This particular threat is especially bad because it will keep people from voting. They'll either figure they look
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 03:51 PM
15 hrs ago

like someone ICE would scoop up and don't want to risk it or they show up to vote and are scooped up as they wait in line. Disappeared and unable to vote.

LetMyPeopleVote

(176,617 posts)
32. MaddowBlog-Eyeing midterms, Steve Bannon expects ICE agents, troops at local polling sites
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 06:09 PM
13 hrs ago

A prominent Democratic governor recently said he was concerned about Trump deploying federal personnel to the polls. Bannon just touted that exact idea.

Eyeing midterms, Steve Bannon expects ICE agents, troops at local polling sites

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Mike Walker (@newnarrative.bsky.social) 2026-02-05T15:44:40.623Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/eyeing-midterms-steve-bannon-expects-ice-agents-troops-at-local-polling-sites

A variety of Republicans expressed discomfort with the declaration, which Trump repeated on Tuesday and Wednesday, pointing to the inconvenient fact that what the president wants is at odds with the U.S. Constitution, which he ostensibly swore to uphold. But one of the president’s allies enthusiastically endorsed the radical gambit. The New Republic noted:

The chief strategist during the president’s first term has a grim vision for the 2026 midterm elections, and it involves armed federal agents.

‘You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,’ Steve Bannon said on his War Room podcast on Tuesday.


“We’re not gonna sit here and allow you to steal the country again,” Bannon added. “And you can whine and cry and throw your toys out of the pram all you want, but we will never again allow an election to be stolen.”

Steve Bannon: “You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November.”

Ari Drennen (@aridrennen.bsky.social) 2026-02-04T19:31:41.011Z


For now, let’s not dwell on the obvious fact that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen. Let’s instead note that the podcast host went on to say that he wouldn’t be satisfied with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surrounding local voting precincts in November: Bannon also wants to see the deployment of active-duty military personnel.

“President Trump has to nationalize the election. You’ve got to put not just, I think, ICE, you’ve got to call up the 82nd and 101st Airborne [Divisions] on the Insurrection Act,” he told his listeners. “You’ve got to get around every poll and make sure only people with IDs, people … actually registered to vote and people that are United States citizens vote in this election.”....

So when a prominent presidential ally uses his conservative media platform to talk about ICE agents and military troops being deployed to local voting precincts, we’re no longer at a place where it’s easy to shrug off such rhetoric as ridiculous.

A few months ago, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker appeared on MS NOW and said he was concerned about the Republican administration deploying federal personnel to polling locations under the pretense of “protecting the vote.” With Bannon endorsing this exact scenario, it’s probably best not to look away too quickly.
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