***IMMEDIATE ACTION***DEFUND TRUMP’S GESTAPO [6-16-25]
Trump and his ICE Gestapo are trampling on our Constitution and building a fascist police state in America.
All across the country ICE is abducting parents, students, and community members and disappearing people based on what we look like. Heavily armed masked men are hanging out around courthouses, schools, and businesses ready to pounce on anyone who seems to be a foreigner. They are even removing children from foster homes and sweeping up nannies in the park, and kidnapping people with no criminal records off the streets. These are not the hardened serious criminals Trump promised during the campaign to deport. Instead, they are adults and children who are part of our communities and, like most Americans, they are just trying to get by.
The Trump administration’s official policy uses state power to instill fear in immigrant communities and detain innocent people— vividly demonstrated by the swarms of masked ICE agents swooping down on Los Angeles like an invading army, mowing down anyone in their way, including David Huerta, the SEIU president, whom they injured and then arrested for “obstruction.”
ICE also intimidates by detaining and charging “interfering” public figures:
The Wisconsin judge barring ICE from her courtroom;
Representative McIver and the Mayor of Newark seeking to conduct oversight;
Senator Padilla manhandled and cuffed for trying to question Homeland Security Secretary at a news conference.
And it illegally continues denying Congresspeople access to ICE facilities to check on detained migrants, part of their oversight function.
Our MoCs must stop fascism in its tracks by exposing ICE’s atrocities and cutting off ICE funding. The billions for militarized enforcement in the MAGA Murder Budget Bill now before the Senate, and later returning to the House, must be removed and the administration notified accountabiliy’s coming when Democrats retake the House.
ACTION One: Call the Senate and the House.
SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
SEN. WYDEN: Portland office: 503-326-7525 | D.C. office: 202-224-5244
REP. BONAMICI: Oregon office: 503-469-6010 | D.C. office: 202-225-0855
REP. BENTZ: Medford office: 541-776-4646 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
REP. DEXTER: Portland office: 503-231-2300 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
REP. HOYLE: Eugene office: 541-465-6732 | D.C. office: 202-225-6416
REP. BYNUM: D.C. office: 202-225-5711
REP. SALINAS: Salem office: 503-385-0906 | D.C. office: 202-225-5643