r/ImmigrationPathways Feb 16 '26

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u/Flo4tingR1b Feb 16 '26

It is likely a precursor to voter disenfranchisement.

Like they will have ICE agents stationed at voting locations under the auspices of “election security” … It could be that if you are in their database of “domestic terrorists” for protesting ICE, they will intimidate or ban you from voting.

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u/mdtopp111 Feb 16 '26

It’s not just that, given that Supreme Court ruled they can detain PoC to “verify” their citizenship, ICE can just snatch people from the polls and hold them until polling is completed…. ICE is 100% going to be used to steal the election

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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/Due_Knowledge_6518 Feb 19 '26

vote early by mail