John,

ICE is flying secret deportation flights out of Portsmouth International Airport — right here in my district. These deportees are being sent to foreign torture prisons and to countries thousands of miles away from where they immigrated from like the Asian and Latin American migrants who were sent to Sudan.

It’s unconstitutional. It’s immoral. I won’t stay silent.

Yesterday, I joined dozens of activists at the airport and spoke directly to the board of directors of the airport imploring them to take a stand.

Here’s what I told the board:

“History is going to judge this moment, just like it judges the internment of the Japanese in World War Two, just as it judges the people that fought against the civil rights protesters, just as it judges the folks that upheld separate but equal ... The one thing this moment needs is courage, and I ask all of you to exercise it.” 

Even the Republican board chairman admitted: “Your statements are moving and impactful.”

This fight is personal: I’m the son of immigrants – first of my family born in America and I am a Latino. English is my second language.

I’ve spent my life taking on the toughest fights:

• I fought war criminals in court. And held them accountable. 
• I stood my ground when Nazis tried to shut down one of my speeches. And I hit back by drafting day one legislation to go after them.
• I served in uniform as an Army National Guard officer. And devoted my work to defending soldiers. 

Now I’m fighting ICE. Because what ICE is doing — tearing families apart, using our airport for secret flights, turning cruelty into policy, violating our constitution — is not justice. It’s not American. We are better than this.

If we want to truly take on ICE, we need a fighter — someone unafraid of ICE, unafraid to take on MAGA extremism, unafraid to fight for working people. That’s why I’m asking you, directly: will you chip in $25, $50, or whatever you can right now to help me take this fight to Congress?

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It’s now or never. Let’s fight back against this authoritarianism before it is too late. 

Thank you,

Christian Urrutia

Democrat for NH-01

Christian Urrutia is a member of the Army National Guard. Use of his military rank, job titles, and photographs in uniform does not imply endorsement by the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense.

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Urrutia for New Hampshire

PO Box 4521

Manchester, NH 

03108