Why this score A federal department whose statements about its own plans are self-interested and are recorded for later checking against what it does.
We have no plans to question or investigate people we believe to be U.S. citizens.
A department statement to NPR after a federal judge barred it from questioning likely citizens in nine states. Its own USCIS declarant concedes a “low possibility” that citizens are wrongly identified. Checkable once the injunction period ends.
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ICE is not planning operations targeting polling locations. ICE conducts intelligence-driven targeted enforcement, and if an active public safety threat endangered a polling location, they may be arrested as a result of that targeted enforcement action.
A written statement to the Associated Press, reported on 2 October; AP names no spokesperson and gives no date for it. It leaves room for arrests at a polling place. What ICE does between now and the close of polls on 3 November will test it.
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