Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) doesn’t think Immigrations and Customs Enforcement “thugs” have any business being near polling places, no matter what Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says.
The Senate Minority Leader was blunt during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union” where he addressed recent remarks Noem made about using her agency to make sure only the “right people” cast ballots by implementing a nationwide voter ID law and other measures.
“That’s a lot of bull,” Schumer told Jake Tapper, making sure to add how rare election irregularities are in the U.S.
The New York senator also talked about Senate Democrats’ push to bar ICE officers from polling locations, calling the agents “thugs” and saying that patrolling voters “flies in the face of how democracy” has worked since the nation’s founding.
“It makes no sense at all,” he went on, before claiming poll workers don’t want immigration enforcement anywhere “near them” or “intimidating them.”
