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Volunteers in towns and cities across the country are getting ready to act if federal immigration agents show up at the polls on Election Day—which they see an existential threat to American democracy.

National and local groups are training people to document and record what ICE is doing, understand voters rights, and in many cases, prepare for worst-case scenarios. www.wired.com/story/massiv...

Officially, the Department of Homeland Security has said that it has no plans to deploy ICE agents to polling locations on Election Day. “ICE is not planning operations targeting polling locations,” a DHS spokesperson tells WIRED.

For the past six months, President Trump and his allies have declined to rule out possible deployments to voting locations during the midterms, even though they would be illegal under federal law.

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