A Plan to Stop ICE From Stealing the Midterms
A campaign to ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement from polling places would provide a concrete, winnable demand that unions, student organizations, and immigrant and democracy defense groups could organize around today, months before the election.
Donald Trump is trying to get Americans used to seeing ICE officers everywhere — including at voting locations in the fall. A national campaign to ban ICE from polling places could block him. (Megan Varner / Getty Images)
MAGA leaders last week announced how they want to steal the midterms.
Within forty-eight hours of Donald Trump’s deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to airports across the country. Steve Bannon was on his War Room podcast explaining the plan. The airport deployment, he explained, was a “test run” to “really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterm elections.” Bannon’s guest, MAGA lawyer Mike Davis, agreed enthusiastically: armed immigration agents should be stationed at polling places in November.
I wish we could dismiss this as hot air from two blowhards. But Trump’s airport initiative appears to be aimed at getting Americans used to seeing ICE officers everywhere, so that their presence at voting locations in the fall might feel like just one more step rather than a radical escalation.
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