周二，随着美国人在全美各州的投票站排队参加2026年美国中期选举，一个显著的现象是现场未见移民与海关执法局（ICE）特工的身影。
On Tuesday, as Americans queued up at polling places across all states for the US midterm elections 2026, a notable absence was the sighting of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on the field.A major point of contention in the first two years of Trump second term at White House, the immigration agents have been involved in several controversial enforcement operations, especially in Minnesota, California, Maine and New York.
在特朗普第二任期白宫生涯的前两年里，移民特工一直是一个主要争议点，他们参与了多起有争议的执法行动，尤其是在明尼苏达州、加利福尼亚州、缅因州和纽约州。特朗普甚至曾试图将他们描绘为其移民议程的标志——这是2024年大选前向选民推销的一个主要卖点。但随着投票进行，ICE特工从公众视野中明显消失，更不用说充当选举监察员了。
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Trump even tried to portray them as a hallmark of his immigration agenda - a major pitch to voters before the 2024 elections. But as polling takes place, the ICE agents are conspicuously absent from public view, let alone acting as election monitors.US midterms 2026: Here's how much money Republicans poured into ads as election stakes riseWhy ICE agents are not acting as election monitors Employees of multiple federal agencies, such as the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), are serving as monitors in the US midterms.
为何ICE特工不担任选举监察员联邦监狱局、烟酒枪炮及爆炸物管理局（ATF）和缉毒局（DEA）等多个联邦机构的员工正在担任美国中期选举的监察员。但美国司法部（DOJ）禁止ICE和联邦调查局（FBI）特工担任此职。此外，司法部表示，监察员将不执行任何执法职能。
But the ICE and the FBI agents have been barred from doing so by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). Additionally, the DOJ said that the monitors will not be performing any law enforcement function.
司法部于10月28日作出这一裁决，此前倡导种族正义的组织“全国有色人种协进会”（NAACP）提交请愿书，寻求禁止检察官和其他执法人员担任选举监察员。该组织指控，这些人员可能被特朗普政府用来恐吓选民。
The DOJ ruling on October 28 came after NAACP, an organization advocating for racial justice, filed a petition seeking a bar on prosecutors and other law enforcement personnel from serving as elections monitors. It alleged that they could be used by the Trump administration to intimidate voters.
早在9月，国土安全部（DHS）部长马克韦恩·马林曾表示，他们前往投票站仅是为了送达搜查令。
Back in September, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin had said that they would visit polling places only to serve a warrant.
值得注意的是，联邦法律禁止在举行大选或特别选举的投票站部署“军队或武装人员”。“我们出现在投票站的唯一理由，是该投票站面临威胁，或者我们正在对一直在追踪的某人执行逮捕令，”穆林说。“如果我们在执行逮捕令，我们就会去我们需要去的地方。”
Notably, federal law prohibits "troops or armed men" at polling places where general or special elections are being held.“The only reason why we would be at polling places, if there is a threat to that polling place or we’re serving a warrant on someone that we have been actively tracking down,” Mullin said. “If we’re serving a warrant, we will be where we need to be.”'
‘我们现在很火热’：特朗普在给选民的最后信息中为其领导力辩护，吹捧油价与美国全球地位ICE特工在投票日将做什么据CNN记者普里西拉·阿尔瓦雷斯报道，ICE内部沟通显示，至少有一个地方办公室已被非正式告知，如果必须前往投票站，不要佩戴徽章。此外，一名官员告诉CNN，关于被部署到投票站一事，并没有进行过任何讨论。“这甚至都没被作为一个想法提过，比如‘我们可能会这么做’。什么都没有，”该官员说。
We're hot now': Trump defends his leadership in final message to voters, touts oil prices and US global standingWhat ICE agents are up to on polling dayAccording to CNN's Priscilla Alvarez, internal communication within the ICE indicates that at least one field office has been informally told to not wear badges if they have to visit polling stations. Additionally, one official told CNN that there have been no discussions about being deployed at polling places.“It hasn’t even been mentioned as an idea, like ‘we might be doing this.’ Nothing,” the official said.