| They Trained to Protect Immigrants From ICE. Now They're Prepping to Defend the Midterm Elections. ICE watchers across the country who watched federal agents shoot people in the streets and fought to drive ICE from their cities are turning their new skills against the next authoritarian threat from the Trump administration: election interference. Volunteers who showed up a few months ago asking, 'Where do I buy a whistle?' are now trained and committed members of an 'ICE Watch' movement, said Zach Mueller, whose anti-authoritarian group States at the Core started hosting trainings earlier this year. 'They're not in the normal cast of characters that have been showing up to rallies over the last several decades,' said Mueller. Now, they're planning to fan out to their local polling places and defend their neighbors' rights to vote. |
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