John,

What we witnessed in Mississippi this week was not an attempt to make our
communities safer or more secure: it was cruelty.

ICE conducted the largest single-state raid in U.S. history on Wednesday
when it arrested nearly 700 people at their workplace. It then left dozens
of children to come home from school with no parents. Infants and toddlers
were left in daycares with no parent to pick them up. Children were crying
and pleading with ICE officers to let their moms and dads come home.

What makes this all the more disturbing? ICE and the Trump administration
decided these raids were appropriate just days after the most deadly
targeted attack on immigrants and the Latinx community in U.S. history.
People are being forced to simultaneously mourn and live in fear.

[ [link removed] ]I have two words in response to all of this: abolish ICE. It’s time we
put an end to this cruel, unhinged police force once and for all: sign our
petition if you’re with me.

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The thing about ICE is, the cruelty is truly the point. They detain first,
ask questions later -- evident from the fact that they released 300 of the
almost 700 people they detained in Mississippi.

This rogue, militarized force is not making any of us safer; on the
contrary, they’re terrorizing and traumatizing children and families, and
in some cases sentencing people to death when they detain or deport them.

Just this week, a Detroit man named Jimmy Aldaoud was found dead in the
streets of Iraq. He was homeless and struggling to find the insulin he
needed after ICE wrongly deported him to a country he never stepped foot
in and did not know the predominant language spoken to get the help he
desperately needed.

Jimmy’s blood is on ICE’s hands. The unforgettable trauma of young
children whose parents were ripped away from them is on ICE’s hands. The
blood of multiple immigrants, including children, while jailed in
detention centers are on ICE’s hands.

[ [link removed] ]It’s time to abolish ICE, John, before they hurt one more
child, family, or community. Add your name to demand Congress act and put
an end to this force of terror now >>

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In solidarity,

-Yvette

Yvette Simpson, CEO
Democracy for America




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