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New: In the final weeks before the election, senior DHS and ICE officials have launched a highly unusual publicity blitz - coincidentally in battleground states - using their platform to openly echo Trump& #39;s stump speech making the case for his re-election https://time.com/5905219/in-last-minute-swing-through-key-states-dhs-and-ice-are-making-the-case-for-donald-trumps-re-election/">https://time.com/5905219/i...
As part of this push, top DHS and ICE leaders have traveled across the country to hold at least four press conferences this month in Pennsylvania, Arizona & Minnesota, shadowing the path of Trump’s rallies as he makes a last-minute appeal to voters there. https://time.com/5905219/in-last-minute-swing-through-key-states-dhs-and-ice-are-making-the-case-for-donald-trumps-re-election/">https://time.com/5905219/i...
DHS & ICE officials are using these press conferences (which announce mostly routine immigration enforcement operations) as a platform to aggressively make the case for Trump& #39;s immigration policies - often adopting his tone & rhetoric https://time.com/5905219/in-last-minute-swing-through-key-states-dhs-and-ice-are-making-the-case-for-donald-trumps-re-election/">https://time.com/5905219/i...
Besides holding two press conferences in Pennsylvania ahead of the election touting Trump& #39;s immigration crackdown, ICE put up black and red billboards in the state with the faces of six immigrants and their charges in big lettering earlier this month https://time.com/5905219/in-last-minute-swing-through-key-states-dhs-and-ice-are-making-the-case-for-donald-trumps-re-election/">https://time.com/5905219/i...
In Arizona, the Acting DHS Sec. warned that there would be a surge in migration & an “unimaginable public health crisis” at the southern border if Trump were to lose the election — a series of nakedly political statements that stunned many former officials https://time.com/5905219/in-last-minute-swing-through-key-states-dhs-and-ice-are-making-the-case-for-donald-trumps-re-election/">https://time.com/5905219/i...
“The rhetoric that’s come out of Wolf & Cuccinelli is appearing to be a propaganda arm of the White House" former DHS spox under Kelly @DaveLapanDC tells me, with the agency becoming politicized as "an extension of the president’s re-election campaign” https://time.com/5905219/in-last-minute-swing-through-key-states-dhs-and-ice-are-making-the-case-for-donald-trumps-re-election/">https://time.com/5905219/i...
In September, ICE also charged 19 non-citizens in NC - most of them long-term permanent residents w/ no criminal record, many of them elderly - with voter fraud in the 2016 election in what lawyers call a "politically driven" move right before the election https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/19-aliens-charged-voter-fraud-north-carolina-following-ice-investigation">https://www.ice.gov/news/rele...
