'Terrorized' battlegrounds turn into 'ghost towns' as ICE swarms early voting
As early voting in the midterm elections gets underway, voting and immigrant rights organizers across the country are bracing for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deployments at polling places.
In south Texas and Maine, organizers are mobilizing volunteers to accompany voters who might be worried about racial profiling or that they’ll be falsely accused of being non-citizens.
Clergy members in Georgia and New York state are volunteering to serve as de-escalators at polling places so they can mitigate disruption to voting in the event ICE agents try to make arrests....
Oct 14, 2026