Steve Bannon and former Trump DHS adviser Todd Bensman agree ICE should be present at polling places
Bensman: “I think ICE agents belong at polling places”
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From the August 13, 2026, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): I want to go back before I lose you, this is what Todd Blanche was saying. He says, I don't understand why people are upset, of course we're going to have ICE agents because people that are noncitizens can't vote. And of course, NBC comes back and says, well, that's intimidation. Why is — It's intimidation. It should be intimidating to noncitizens. Yes, we want it to be intimidating to noncitizens. You should not go to a polling place.
The Democratic model, Todd, as you know, is to flood the zone with people that are not eligible to vote, to vote, and this is why — they can scream all they want and cry all they want and throw their toys out of the pram, but this is going to happen. Todd, your thoughts on ICE agents at polling places.
TODD BENSMAN (GUEST): I think ICE agents belong at polling places. They can go anywhere they want. That's their job. Their job is to find illegal aliens wherever they are. That's their job. We hire them to do that and the law says that they have to do that.
But you're right. Listen, if 278,000 noncitizens are registered to vote in just four states that we know of, that means, I mean, there's millions probably who are at least registered to vote. That is not just a problem, that is a catastrophe because elections in this country these days are decided by a few thousand votes.
I mean, look what happened in Michigan. I mean, the guy won the primary for, by like, you know, 1% or something. It's like, who knows how many noncitizens voted in that thing. It might have been enough and all of our elections are that close. So there needs to be a big crackdown on people who are registered - first of all, just to register, get rid of the automatic license, driver's license application registration function in all these blue states.