John,

Trump’s administration has detained and deported more students, professors, and workers without accusing them of committing any crimes—often in direct defiance of federal judges’ orders. This includes Mahmoud Khalil, Rasha Alawieh, Rumeysa Ozturk, Ranjani Srinivasan, Badar Khan Suri, Yunseo Chung, Momodou Taal, Fabian Schmidt, Jasmine Mooney, and Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

The Trump administration is violating these people’s constitutional rights to due process, which blocks law enforcement from arresting and detaining anyone without reasonable suspicion of a crime, ensures the right to a fair court hearing, and more. Being undocumented is not a crime, and due process protections apply to every U.S. resident, regardless of immigration status.

In violation of federal judges’ orders, Trump is trying to avoid abiding by due process protections, including by illegally sending people to notorious overseas prisons and by invoking a racist wartime law that was used to intern Japanese Americans during World War II. Family members have identified some of the people deported to El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, noting that they hadn’t committed any crime.^1,2 At least one family is suing the Department of Homeland Security for illegally deporting a father with protected status.³

Right now Trump’s administration is targeting undocumented people, green card holders, and people with valid visas, but they won’t stop at attacking immigrants. They’re already racially profiling and kidnapping citizens, only releasing them after seeing proof of citizenship. Unless we stop them, they will try out fascist repression on citizens who speak out against Trump and for social justice. We must act now to defend immigrants and all of us who call this country home.

Sign to tell Congress, federal courts, and the U.S. Marshals Service: Take urgent action now to defend our due process rights from Trump’s fascist attacks!

In an unprecedented constitutional crisis, the Trump administration has continued to openly violate federal court orders—even threatening to impeach federal judges who’ve blocked his unconstitutional actions.

The federal judiciary branch of government is obligated to provide a check on unconstitutional actions from the legislative branch (Congress) and the executive branch (the president). Federal judges challenging Trump are doing their duty.

But the head of Trump’s Department of Justice, Attorney General Pam Bondi, has vowed to continue defying court orders, including the order blocking the deportation of Venezuelan refugees to El Salvador’s torture prisons. She has even claimed that judges don’t have the right to block Trump’s actions, an outrageous lie.

Trump and his administration are not only violating human and constitutional rights, they’re also undermining one of the most fundamental principles of our democracy: the system of checks and balances between branches of government. This is a threat to all of us.

The U.S. Marshals Service specifically has the power to enforce federal court orders, but it’s overseen by the Department of Justice along with the courts. Despite their connection to the Trump administration, we need U.S. Marshals—as well as the judiciary and legislative branches—to act immediately as checks to Trump’s power.

Sign to demand the U.S. Marshals Service, Congress, and federal courts stop Trump’s fascist repression and protect our constitutional rights, including the right to due process.

Thank you for taking action. We will speak up for everyone targeted by the Trump administration—not only because it’s the right thing to do, but also because the more they can get away with, the more of us they’ll attack.

In my district, I’ve been honored to join with community groups to inform immigrants about their rights and to support people on their path to obtaining citizenship, including connecting families with free legal assistance. I will do all that’s in my power in Congress—including using my positions on the Oversight Committee—to stop Trump’s unconstitutional and immoral actions. I will keep demanding the release of detained immigrants and pushing for a humane immigration system.

Together we will resist harmful rhetoric and policies that demonize our neighbors, and we will continue demanding a future with dignity, safety, and equal rights for all people.

With you in this fight,

Rashida

1. White House ignores court and invokes Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelans
2. ‘A human rights disaster’: immigrants sent into Guantánamo black hole despite no proof of crime
3. Maryland father sues U.S. officials after being deported to El Salvador prison

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From: Rashida Tlaib
Date: Fri, Apr 4, 2025
Subject: Sign to defend due process rights from Trump’s attacks
To: [email protected]

John,

Mahmoud Khalil is still illegally detained, and since his abduction the Trump administration has been detaining and deporting even more immigrants, including students, professors, and workers with valid visas and permanent residency status.

Trump’s administration has:

• Deported Dr. Rasha Alawieh in violation of a judge’s orders. The Brown University professor was blocked from re-entering the U.S. after visiting family in Lebanon.¹

• Kidnapped Rumeysa Ozturk, a PhD student at Tufts University in Massachusetts, taking her to Louisiana in violation of a judge’s orders.² Surveillance video shows masked, plainclothes ICE agents surrounding and handcuffing her in broad daylight before putting her in an unmarked car.

• Revoked the student visa of Ranjani Srinivasan—a Fulbright scholar pursuing a PhD at Columbia University—and Badar Khan Suri, a PhD student and teacher at Georgetown University whose wife is a U.S. citizen.^3,4 Badar is still detained and Ranjani fled the country in fear after ICE came to the student’s home.

• Took and tortured Fabian Schmidt, a permanent resident who’s lived here for 17 years, as he returned from a trip abroad.⁵

• Held Jasmine Mooney, a Canadian with a valid U.S. work visa, for two weeks in “freezing-cold jail cells” with no explanation.⁶

• Tried to deport two brave students who are now suing the Trump administration: permanent resident Yunseo Chung and visa-holder Momodou Taal.

• Deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El Salvador’s notorious torture prisons, in violation of multiple judges’ orders.⁷ A brother, father, and husband of U.S. citizens, Abrego Garcia had protected status that prevented him from being sent to his home country of El Salvador, where he could face persecution. ICE admitted to what they called an “administrative error,” but oppose his return to his family.

None of these people have been accused of any crime in association with deportation. Regardless of immigration status, all residents of the United States have constitutional rights like the right to free speech and the right to due process.

Due process protections are meant to block arrests if agents don’t have reasonable suspicion of a crime. Due process requirements include proper notice of an immigration hearing, the ability to advocate and present evidence on one’s behalf in court, the right to a neutral rather than partisan judge, and the right to legal counsel in deportation proceedings.

Trump’s administration is testing out anti-democratic power grabs and violating our due process rights. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he’s monitoring student visa holders’ social media posts and aiming to deport people who criticize the U.S. government. Then they might come for anyone who criticizes Trump, including citizens. We must stop this fascist repression immediately and make sure it doesn’t spread even further.

Please sign to tell Congress, federal courts, and the U.S. Marshals Service: Defend our due process rights from Trump’s attacks, and do your duty to prevent the president’s fascist repression NOW.

Trump keeps violating court orders, including an order to block his deportations of hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador’s notorious torture prisons without any due process. He even threatened to impeach the judge who issued that order. These unprecedented actions undermine one of the most fundamental principles of our democracy: the constitutionally mandated system of checks and balances between branches of government.

The judicial branch (courts) is an important check on the legislative branch (Congress) and executive (president) branch of government. Congress and judges act as checks to presidents’ power. When federal judges block Trump’s unconstitutional actions, they’re doing their duty and their job.

The U.S. Marshals Service is the group designated to enforce federal court orders. Unfortunately, the U.S. Marshals Service reports not only to the courts, but also to Trump’s Department of Justice. Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi has openly defied court orders, lying to the public by claiming that it’s unconstitutional for judges to block Trump’s (illegal) actions. The opposite is true.

If the fascists in power can violate court orders and laws without consequences now, they will come for others, including people speaking out for lifesaving services like Medicaid, people advocating against police brutality, and others who are exercising their free speech rights.

Already, Customs and Border Patrol has denied entry and even detained numerous tourists after checking their phones and finding criticism of Trump—prompting countries like Germany and the UK to issue travel warnings about the United States. And the Department of Homeland Security emailed hundreds of students with visas, stating that their visas have been revoked and threatening them with deportation to countries other than their country of origin.⁸

The time is NOW to speak up and demand all branches of our federal government stop Trump’s fascist attacks and defend our fundamental rights.

Sign to demand the U.S. Marshals Service, federal courts, and Congress act as necessary checks to stop Trump’s fascist violations of the Constitution and defend the constitutional right to due process.

Thank you. Together, we will keep standing up for our rights. As a daughter of immigrants and former immigration lawyer, I will also keep demanding the human right to freedom of movement and pushing for a humane immigration system with real pathways to citizenship.

To our immigrant neighbors: Please know we see you and we will fight to protect you. You deserve to live with dignity and respect in the place you’ve lived and worked for years.

Remember you have rights no matter your immigration status. If an immigration agent comes to talk to you or knock on your door, don’t answer the questions or open the door. ICE has no right to enter your home without a valid warrant signed by a judge, and you have the right to remain silent and to ask for a lawyer. You don’t have to sign anything or hand anything over.

Don’t forget the importance of grassroots pressure: It’s always the people who shift oppressive systems and get us closer to the society we deserve. Change doesn’t start inside the halls of power; the people make it possible.

With you in this fight,

Rashida

1. White House ignores court and invokes Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelans
2. “Kidnapped”: 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk
3. Another Columbia student targeted by ICE says she wasn’t involved in protests
4. Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
5. Trump Administration’s Latest Kidnapping Victim Being Held at Wyatt
6. I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped.
7. Maryland father sues U.S. officials after being deported to El Salvador prison
8. Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism