cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/49477829

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lawyers have told a court that the agency may have thousands of documents relevant to Democrats’ demand for the Trump administration’s possible plans to deploy immigration agents at the polls this fall.

Still, with the midterms approaching, ICE hasn’t produced a single document — leaving Americans in the dark amid fears that President Donald Trump may heed the calls of prominent MAGA figures and station ICE agents or National Guard personnel at voting sites, a move clearly meant to intimidate voters and poll workers and influence election outcomes.

The volte-face came after the DNC pointed out that recent alarming actions by ICE agents in or around voting sites must have generated documents pertinent to its FOIA request.

The incidents highlighted by the DNC included two ICE agents confronting a poll worker at a voting site in Syracuse, New York, as she was helping carry out the state’s recent primary elections last month.

In a docket entry Monday, Howell, who was nominated by former President Barack Obama, said ICE had identified at least 11,103 potentially responsive pages. In addition, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which previously told Howell that it did not have a set timeline on when its search for responsive documents would be completed, found approximately 116,779 pertinent records, the judge said.

Under FOIA, government agencies are required to inform the requester if no responsive files exist or if the documents are exempted under the law from being revealed, such as those related to ongoing criminal investigations.

Howell noted that even though several agencies identified thousands of potential documents responsive to the DNC’s request, “not a single page of responsive materials has yet been produced, with less than four months before the 2026 midterm elections.”

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    Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lawyers have told a court that the agency may have thousands of documents relevant to Democrats’ demand for the Trump administration’s possible plans to deploy immigration agents at the polls this fall.

    Still, with the midterms approaching, ICE hasn’t produced a single document — leaving Americans in the dark amid fears that President Donald Trump may heed the calls of prominent MAGA figures and station ICE agents or National Guard personnel at voting sites, a move clearly meant to intimidate voters and poll workers and influence election outcomes.

    The volte-face came after the DNC pointed out that recent alarming actions by ICE agents in or around voting sites must have generated documents pertinent to its FOIA request.

    The incidents highlighted by the DNC included two ICE agents confronting a poll worker at a voting site in Syracuse, New York, as she was helping carry out the state’s recent primary elections last month.

    In a docket entry Monday, Howell, who was nominated by former President Barack Obama, said ICE had identified at least 11,103 potentially responsive pages. In addition, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which previously told Howell that it did not have a set timeline on when its search for responsive documents would be completed, found approximately 116,779 pertinent records, the judge said.

    Under FOIA, government agencies are required to inform the requester if no responsive files exist or if the documents are exempted under the law from being revealed, such as those related to ongoing criminal investigations.

    Howell noted that even though several agencies identified thousands of potential documents responsive to the DNC’s request, “not a single page of responsive materials has yet been produced, with less than four months before the 2026 midterm elections.”

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    MAGAs are so predictably stupid. This strategy will only suppress the vote on Election DAY, which more conservatives utilize than Dems. Many Dems use early voting. Many black churches even have a “Souls to the Polls Sunday,” where they all head off to to do early voting after a big Sunday service dedicated to it. They won’t be hanging around the polls on election day.

    All that firepower is bound to scare off far more cowardly MAGAs from voting on Election Day, than righteously pissed off Dems, who can’t wait to vote, and probably did it at the public library weeks ago.

    It will especially scare off the Hispanic vote, which was a big factor for them in 2024. They’ve already alienated a lot of them, how many are left that are willing to run a gauntlet of ICE Apes, just to vote to have even more of their rights abused?

    So, yeah, go ahead and deploy your ICE Apes, who are going to be so closely watched by EVERYBODY that they’ll be afraid to do anything, and will just stand around all day in the cold, with their frozen thumbs stuck up their frozen asses, trying to look like tough guys, and only succeeding in looking like the fat hillbilly losers they are.

    And if you do go to the polls on Election Day, and see these dickheads hanging around, be sure to verbally abuse them ferociously as you pass by.

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      And if you do go to the polls on Election Day, and see these dickheads hanging around, be sure to verbally abuse them ferociously as you pass by.

      After you vote so they can’t find some excuse to detain you long enough you can’t.