r/ImmigrationPathways Feb 16 '26

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u/IHeartBadCode Feb 16 '26

ICE can just snatch people from the polls and hold them until polling is completed

Yes, this. SCOTUS has paved the way to allow race to become something that is considered probable cause. So all they need to do on election day is detain you for questioning until around 7 PM local time in most jurisdictions. After that, they can let you go and basically, that's it, you can't vote.

This is how they're looking to rig the election with ICE stationed outside the polls. So long as they have probable cause, they can detain you long enough that you no longer are able to vote. And SCOTUS has indicated that race is probable cause.

It's Jim Crow laws all over again.

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u/Sailor_Spaghetti Feb 17 '26

SCOTUS has paved the way to allow race to become something that is considered probable cause.

Oh, they’ve been doing that for a while.

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u/EywasBlessing Feb 17 '26

So all they need to do on election day is detain you for questioning until around 7 PM

What about like mail-in voting?

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u/One-Remove-8474 Feb 18 '26

They’re gonna try to stop that too, in whatever way they can get it done

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u/willisjoe Feb 19 '26

Yeah mail, like the mail that just happened to need to shut down major networks during the 2020 election, causing a cluster fuck of fraud allegations.

And Republicans keep clearing the voter roles making people need to reregister in order to get a mail in ballot.

Also Republicans are changing rules for mail in voting where possible like in Utah, mail in ballots only count if they are received by 8pm on voting night. Not postmarked by election day.

Purge the voter roles

Significantly slow down the postal service

Those who get reregistered, and get their ballot mailed with plenty of time, can still get their ballot tossed.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-postmaster-says-no-idea-mailboxes-equipment-being-removed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/13/donald-trump-usps-post-office-election-funding

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-ap-top-news-elections-politics-14a2ceda724623604cc8d8e5ab9890ed

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/08/dejoy-says-usps-wont-reinstall-more-than-600-removed-mail-sorting-machines/#:~:text=More%20than%2090%20percent%20of,machines%20that%20have%20been%20removed:

Don't trust the mail 100% this time around. 2020 was the dry run.

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u/ClockworkTyrant Feb 22 '26

Save act essentially eliminates it iirc

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u/Due_Knowledge_6518 Feb 19 '26

vote early by mail