DHS Assurance on No ICE Presence at Polls Masks a Deeper Threat to Election Integrity

As the nation prepares for November’s midterm elections, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official sought to reassure election administrators that immigration agents would not be stationed at polling locations. But beneath this surface promise lies a pattern of federal overreach and politicization that strikes at the heart of American electoral sovereignty. Why should we accept these assurances when past actions suggest otherwise? Heather Honey, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Election Integrity—whose public record includes support for debunked claims about the 2020 election—addressed state secretaries of state with an emphatic denial: “any suggestion that ICE will be present at any polling...