Image: A demonstrator holds an anti-ICE sign while attending the “March on Washington: Defend the Vote” rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 2026.Probal Rashid / LightRocket via Getty Images

Ariana Figueroa for Truthout reports: “Latino advocacy groups and voting rights organizations Thursday filed a suit in federal court challenging the Trump administration’s policy of allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to enter polling locations in certain circumstances to conduct immigration enforcement during the 2026 midterm elections.

The suit in the District Court for the District of Columbia argues that Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s recent comments that ICE agents would be at polling locations for the purpose of immigration enforcement violates federal law that prohibits federal “armed men” at election sites.

The statute allows for “troops” or “armed men” at polling locations only if “such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States.”

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