'They may be arrested': ICE makes startling admission on election monitoring operation

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

November 2, 2025 12:08PM ET


With millions of voters expected to descend to the polls Tuesday in a series of off-year elections, including in California where voters will vote on a constitutional amendment to redraw the state’s congressional districts, the Trump administration made a startling admission regarding how its poll monitors may operate on Election Day.

The Trump administration has deployed Justice Department officials to monitor elections in both California and New Jersey, citing allegations of election “irregularities” from Republican leadership in both states, a move that critics have labeled as blatant “voter intimidation.” The New York Times reported Sunday that officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that while the agency would not target polling sites with immigration raids, there was one important caveat.

“If a dangerous criminal alien is near a polling location, they may be arrested as a result of that targeted enforcement action,” the statement read, as reported by the Times. The DOJ plans to have staff from its Civil Rights Division stationed at polling sites – many of them in areas with significant Hispanic populations – purportedly to ensure compliance with federal voting laws. Officials in both states, however, have pushed back.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that the state would be deploying its observers to “monitor the monitors,” the Times reported, and New Jersey’s attorney general, Matt Platkin, called the deployment of federal monitors “highly inappropriate,” and also pledged to deploy its own observers to monitor for potential voter intimidation.

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[MarineCombatEngineer]

1. If any of those fed. "monitors" attempt to interfere, intimidate or arrest any voter,

then the local or state police need to remove them and if they refuse, then they need to be arrested for obstruction and hauled off to jail.

No more fucking around with these Nazi's.

[gay texan]

2. Something tells me

Newsom is one step ahead of this

[JustAnotherGen]

10. So is Matt Platkin

[Cherokee100]

4. Out standing

Out standing, carry on Marine.

[Seinan Sensei]

14. Send the foot soldiers to jail

That will dampen their enthusiasm

[paleotn]

22. Arrest, indict, prosecute and incarcerate them.

State matter, Donnie. You have no power here. Not with respect to elections or the arrest and prosecution of those who are deemed to have interfered with said elections through intimidation or any other means.

Time for the Blue states to get tough. Shithead is going to cut our federal funding anyway, so what the hell. Let's just cut to the damn chase.

[grandpamike1]

25. Monitor

OORAH Brother.

[3auld6phart]

29. Gawd

Almighty .. I can’t be what Hell is going on down there I in the -#States.. what a Shit show ..
,

[Chasstev365]

3. At least they are giving away the game plan for the 2026 Mid-terms for the world to see

[Irish_Dem]

5. Yep telling us part of the plan to steal the elections.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. I'm a poll worker in Passaic County, the only NJ county that's going to be

"monitored". I'm expecting a visit from the DOJ as our town's demographic is 70% Latino/Hispanic/Mexican/Muslim.

I'll report back to you after I'm done, after 8:30 on Tuesday.

[Deuxcents]

11. Yes, please let us know you're ok 🌺

[bluestarone]

12. TYVM!! i would love to see more of this from other affected states.

[ShazzieB]

16. Good luck with this, no_hypocrisy!

We'll look forward to your update!

[mopinko]

24. remember it's YOUR polling place.

dont know if nj law is different from il, but i’ve been a judge here. they drilled it into us that we own the polling place and can kick anyone but someone actively voting, and certified poll watchers the hell out. no fucking shenanigans, period.
i’m in chgo. they dont station cops, but the beat cops keep an eye, and treat any call from a polling place as top priority.
i’ve never had to call, but i’ve tossed a few assholes.

[no_hypocrisy]

28. Agreed. It's one thing to have certified "Objectors" and it's another thing to have

disruptors under the guise of federal monitoring.

We've kicked out Objectors for not being certified.

[obamanut2012]

30. Thanks -- and be careful!

[James48]

7. What they are saying is-

That federal Border Patrol and/or. Other federal agents will be physically AT polling sites, using handheld cellphone cameras to ID people THEY let in to come vote.

And they expect to tag some who may be a troublemaker, no?

Who here doubts they will be checking the ID facial recognition of EVERY person?

[slightlv]

18. So much for voting anonymously...! Isn't this illegal? WE can't take cameras in, can we?

[nilram]

33. Great. And they'll treat a positive id from an AI like it's absolute.

Hilarity ensues. Not.

[calimary]

36. Is voting by mail still an option?

[Silent Type]

8. Won't be many, actually zero, people at polls who are missing a paper or two.

[bluestarone]

9. Remember folks, so far these bastards caused everything they are accusing us of.

THEY will cause problems at polling places. THEY have plans to cause an insurrection. Be ready for anything. Go with friends with phones and cameras. Know what you should do if friends or yourself are attacked.

[Diraven]

13. They'll just arrest anyone who looks Hispanic

Since the Supreme Court said racial profiling is legal now, but only for this one minority. Sure, they'll have to let everyone go because every single person arrested will turn out to be an American citizen after all, but only after they interrogate them for hours until after the polls close, and oh well, I guess they missed their chance to vote.

[LittleGirl]

15. I dropped my mail-in ballot

At the Library drop box last week!

Do they not know that CA has mail-in voting?

Come on!

[C Moon]

27. A lot of voters don't mail it in. Don't know why.

Maybe procrastination? I had to leave my wife’s in plain view w a pen next to it last week. She finally filled in the one bubble. I mailed it the next day. Sent mine way before.

[LittleGirl]

32. We moved into CA last year

and our mail delivery is absolutely the worst. We were mailed an IRS refund check last June 2024 and never got it. When they notified us that they had mailed the check, we had to ask where? We got a snail mail notification on Friday saying they needed 60 more days to process the replacement check. WTF. Just direct deposit it like our tax statements show. OMG GOP, WTF.

[TheRickles]

17. This is the kind of situation that the UN often monitors.

Usually banana republics and sham democracies - and here we are.

[slightlv]

19. By the next general election, we're going to need them here!

[IcyPeas]

20. "If a dangerous criminal alien is near a polling location...."

"Dangerous.Criminal.Alien"

Or Latino looking gardener, as the case may be.
Or Hispanic looking taco vendor
Etc. Etc.

This is a photo from the first No Kings protest:

[orangecrush]

21. Arrest the fuckers

And if the State Police don't want to do it, fire them and get someone who will.

[FakeNoose]

23. To state the obvious, it's not likely that any illegal immigrants would try to vote on Tuesday

... but then ... we already knew that, didn't we?

It seems that ICE no longer cares about catching illegal immigrants.

They just want harass anybody - ANYBODY - that isn't a middle-class white male.
Fuck them. No seriously: Fuck ICE, Dept. of Homeland Security and Dept. of Justice.
This is not law enforcement, it is harassment of citizens who are exercising their legal right to vote.

[C Moon]

26. The media keeps talking about how the gop has stopped fighting against Newsom's prop. 50, because it's going to win.

But I believe the gop stopped putting money into ads because they were told by cheaters like Elon, etc, "It WILL lose—we'll make sure of it."
Now we're seeing they are going to put storm troopers at the polling places.

Yep, their plan is to smash the proposition.

[Beacool]

31. I voted last Tuesday in NJ.

FUCK THESE FASCISTS!!!

[Torchlight]

34. State sanctioned voter suppression. Stalin got 125% of the votes too! nt

[Bettie]

35. Um...."Dangerous Criminal Aliens" don't have the right to vote

by their being non-citizens.

But, they know that and just want to harass and abuse people with brown skin. Assholes.

[CousinIT]

37. NOTE: By law, you are NOT required to provide any information to any "election monitor"

If anyone interferes with your ability to vote or tries to intimidate you or keep you from voting, call 866-OUR-VOTE

https://866ourvote.org/

[red dog 1]

38. Another fascist act that makes 2025 America look like pre-war 1930's Nazi Germany.

[Torchlight]

39. Dangerous criminals in a line of voters would be... non-white voters.

ICE has their Idiot Proof 3-Step MO down at this point: attack, persecute, think. In that order.

[republianmushroom]

40. More fear and intimidation from America Gestapo.