Authorities have confirmed that a man was arrested over the weekend for impersonating an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent at a polling place, leaving voters feeling intimidated.
ABC News has confirmed that 46-year-old Damilo Alves Silva dressed in what was described by authorities as a blue “ICE raid jacket,” along with a blue ICE hat, sunglasses, tactical boots, and a face mask, and intentionally intimidated voters at Miami Dade College’s Kendall Campus on Sunday, where Brazilian nationals were gathered to cast their votes in Brazil’s presidential election.
Brazil’s presidential election is headed to a runoff on the 25th of this month, after neither presidential candidate secured a large enough margin of votes to win. Interestingly, Brazil’s authorities are currently investigating whether US President Donald Trump interfered in the election, as he has spent the last year expressing outrage over the prosecution and arrest of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting to overturn his election loss in late 2022 and early 2023. Jair Bolsonaro’s son, Flávio Bolsonaro, is now running for president in Brazil.
The country’s authorities recently realized that US President Trump may have used foreign aid funding to meddle in this election in support of Flávio Bolsonaro.
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