<[link removed]> <[link removed]>Sign the petition: Jews demand Kristi Noem resign now. <[link removed]>

Friend, 

This afternoon, California Senator Alex Padilla tried to ask a question at Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in LA — only to be forcibly removed from the room, pushed to the floor, and handcuffed.1,2

"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers throughout the country,” Sen. Padilla said.

Members of Congress and people across the country are calling for Secretary Noem — who is implementing the worst of Trump’s attacks on immigrants and our democracy — to resign.

Add your name to the Jewish petition to amplify the call: Kristi Noem, resign now. <[link removed]>

Trump and his cronies have had immigrant students thrown to the ground and abducted for speaking freely. They’ve had U.S. citizens thrown to the ground and jailed for speaking freely. Today they threw a U.S. Senator to the ground and handcuffed him for speaking freely.

When students ask questions, they’re asking on behalf of the future. It’s their job and their right. When protestors ask questions, they’re asking on behalf of the immigrants who are woven into the fabric of their communities. It’s their job and their right. When U.S. Senators ask questions, they are asking on behalf of the millions of Americans they represent. It’s their job and their right.

Today, Kristi Noem proved what we’ve been saying all along: when they come for the most vulnerable of us, they will come for all of us eventually. And when they come for the most powerful of us, they’re coming for all of us sooner than we think.

As Jews, we’ve seen this before. It’s why many of us came to a nation that defends free speech, not arrests, cages and deports you for it. And it’s why we’re taking action now.

Sign the petition: Jews demand Kristi Noem resign now. <[link removed]>

Thank you for taking action to stop the march of Trump's fascism,

The Bend the Arc team 


Sources:
1. Sen. Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference in Los Angeles, NBC <[link removed]>
2. Senate Democrats call for Noem to resign, The Hill <[link removed]>

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