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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'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/
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/
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'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/
Besides holding two press conferences in Pennsylvania ahead of the election touting Trump'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/
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/
“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/
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
