An official with the Department of Homeland Security told state election officials that federal immigration agents will not be at the polls during the midterm elections. (Ryan Murphy/Getty Images)
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This comes as several Democrats have expressed concern that immigration agents may be placed at polling locations to intimidate Americans who fear they could be racially profiled and targeted if they show up to vote.
"I'm talking about something that I think would be extraordinary in American history, which is uniformed and masked ICE agents encircling polling places," Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., said at a recent congressional hearing. "And it's not fantasy, and it's not made up. We need to be clear-eyed about that. These are things that the president and his cabinet have suggested."
The Department of Justice has been filing lawsuits seeking detailed voter data, though the department has not publicly detailed its specific rationale for each request.
Trump has also renewed his claims that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election, claims that have been widely disputed and rejected by courts, and has called on administration officials to investigate that election.
Democratic officials and public interest lawyers across the country have been concerned for months about the possibility of President Donald Trump's interference in the midterms. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Participants on the call said Democrat secretaries of state asked Honey several questions about the administration's cuts to election security funding and its efforts to root out noncitizen voting, which is already illegal and rare, as well as concerns about federal law enforcement officers appearing at polling places.
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The White House has dismissed those concerns, saying there was no disruption during last year's election when Democrats performed well.
During a congressional hearing earlier this month, Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott both said they were not involved in any efforts to patrol voting places.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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