Propublica - Hoax Image of Immigration Officers Arresting Voters Is Making Rounds on Social Media

[TomCADem]

The Trump campaign and the alt-right are continuing to push racist memes on the eve of the General Election.

https://projects.propublica.org/electionland/national/hoax-image-of-immigration-officers-arresting-voters-making-rounds-on-social-media/

An image has begun circulating on Twitter that appears to show an immigration officer arresting someone in line to vote. The image is a hoax, as is the accompanying threatening language directed at Hispanic voters.

The image is a composite of two photographs readily found on the internet, and there has not been a single report of anyone being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement while voting as far as we are aware.



Tammy Patrick, a fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center and an elections expert said she has never heard of any federal effort to arrest Hispanic voters for immigration violations. “I have never, ever, ever heard of this happening. Ever,” she said, calling the photo “stomach churning.”

“It sounds like a step up from decades ago when ads were put out saying that if you hadn’t paid child support you will be arrested when you go to vote,” she said, referencing an effort in the early 2000s in South Carolina to dissuade black voters from voting.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Take this, fascists

We're voting you away

[mainer]

2. "Neil Turner" who originated this on Twitter turns out to be a 'bot

and his Twitter account is still active. Why?

[Journeyman]

3. Pretty bad 'shop job, what with no one watching the arrest . . .

With a little extra effort, I'm certain the "artist" could have found a better image of voters looking on in stunned disbelief, or even cheering (if that was the reaction they were hoping to elicit).

Can't even give it an "E" for effort, as so little seemed to go into it.

[LongTomH]

4. How low can they go??

[TrekLuver]

5. And look...no one else in line is even looking to see what's going on behind them. Not one person

cares to look at the person getting arrested. They are behaving like they aren't even there.

[TheBlackAdder]

6. They didn't even shade the sunlight properly. The people in the back are under a whiter light.