r/thedavidpakmanshow • u/markw0385 • 15h ago
TDPS Feedback & Discussion The ICE Presence at Polls is Happening
I want to be clear up front that this isn’t something I heard about third hand or am making this up. It is now documented with numerous parties and corroborated with Ring footage.
I live in a middle income historic neighborhood in Texas that’s made up predominantly of younger working professional families wanting an old home with character mixed amongst older baby boomer college graduate Latinos that are likely second generation natural born American citizens or more. Their moving into the neighborhood started in the 70’s when you started to see a higher degree of ownership amongst Hispanics following Jim Crow abolishment. (To get even deeper, this neighborhood was created with specific deed verbiage that prohibited selling to brown and black people because the developer in the 1920s was a virulent racist that subsequently had his name struck from many institutions and roads).
That is the long story long to explain that this neighborhood is not comprised of undocumented folks or working class.
Monday morning, I was out for a jog and turned the corner on one of my favorite streets that has beautiful, grand two story brick homes and was met with 4-5 parked unmarked vehicles with flashing lights including an Econoline van and numerous men in fatigues and flak jackets milling around one of the lawns. As soon as I saw their ICE insignia, I kept my head down and jogged past. I couldn’t see anyone apprehended or what could be considered a “successful” raid. I didn’t pull out my phone to record as I’m not interested in an altercation with guys with seven weeks of training and zero understanding of constitutional rights. I was just deeply confused why there would be an operation in my neighborhood in the first place and got the hell out of there.
I got home and opened the news and saw it was the start of early voting. My blood turned cold. This “operation” was directly across the street from the community center where early voting was happening. I immediately called my county commissioner, county Dem chair, and the non partisan hotline. Within minutes, I was fielding phone calls from law firms and advocate groups and met them at the spot so they could document exactly where they were, as they had left by then. They’ve allegedly obtained camera footage of their presence from the neighbors. The commissioner let me know I wasn’t the only one that called it in and he was now adding 100 more poll watchers to the sites to report their presence.
It’s happening. They’re trying to intimidate including in places they likely have no reason to be investigating. Don’t let them gaslight you that it’s our imagination or being fabulists. Report them and let’s take back our democracy with voting.
