ICE not being deployed to polling places for midterms, state election officials told: Sources

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will not be deployed at polling places during the midterm elections later this year, state election security administrators were told during a call with federal officials Wednesday, according to multiple sources familiar with the call.

Responding to the California secretary of state during the call, Heather Honey, deputy assistant secretary for Elections Integrity at the Department of Homeland Security, called the suggestion that ICE would be present at polling places “disinformation,” according to one person briefed on the call.

In a statement following the call, a DHS official said in a statement: “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.”

Sources described the first part of the call as routine, with state officials hearing from the FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service about security for the midterms.



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