EL PASO, Texas – On Tuesday morning, the Texas Civil Rights Project submitted a “Freedom of Information Act” request to the Department of Homeland Security to uncover documents or files regarding the “crowd control exercise” announced by Customs and Border Protection in El Paso, Texas, for Election Day.

“On Election Day, voters should feel free and confident to go out and cast a ballot. We will get to the bottom of why federal and state officials decided that today, of all days, would be a good idea to run this exercise,” Beth Stevens, voting rights legal director, said.

Tuesday afternoon, the El Paso Sector of the U.S. Border Patrol today issued a statement cancelling a planned "crowd control" exercise scheduled Tuesday morning in El Paso.

The news came after several complaints were made by the ACLU of Texas, ACLU Border Rights' Center, congress people, and community members.

"It shouldn’t have taken outrage by us, congress people and the community for Border Patrol to know this would cause serious problems on Election Day. These suspicious exercises scheduled in a Latinx neighborhood raise serious concerns about whether this was intended to intimidate Texans from exercising their right to vote,” Terri Burke, executive director for the ACLU of Texas, said.