[ [link removed] ]Angela Gonzales-Torrest for Congress[ [link removed] ]Angela Gonzales-Torrest for Congress





Angela Gonzales-Torres is a pro-human rights candidate running to
represent CA-34. Email is one of the most important ways that we can keep
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John, when I was
a young girl, I lived through my father's deportation. 

I endured more court proceedings than any child should and saw firsthand
how they treated my father — as many deportees, even deported veterans are
treated — as if he was disposable, and nothing.

I’ll never forget the look on my mother’s or sister's faces. It took me
years to process and understand what happened when he was taken from my
life and there was what felt like just silence. 

Those feelings come rushing back when I see the terror that ICE is
inflicting across the country, in an even bolder and crueler way than when
I was a young girl.

The fear and anger rushes up when I see a young woman named Evelyn, just
18 years old and a U.S. citizen, thrown to the ground by a masked ICE
officer while she screams, “I am not resisting!” She was aggressively
handcuffed, roughly handled, detained for hours, and later released
without charges.

Dehumanization comes for us all. Whether immigrant or citizen. Our
privileges will not protect us. We aren’t free until we’re all free.

ICE has been detaining and assaulting U.S. citizens in Chicago and across
the country: children, workers, even journalists. 

Federal agents zip-tied one woman “because she didn’t look like her
surname.” 

Another man, a U.S. citizen, was shackled and pepper-sprayed.

As The Cut notes, there have been “more than 170 cases in which
immigration-enforcement agents have detained U.S. citizens” during Trump’s
presidency.

This isn’t about safety. This is about rounding up and discriminating
against people based on what they look like. 

I’ve lived that fear. I’ve seen families broken apart by policies designed
to dehumanize. And I refuse to accept a future where any of us, regardless
of citizenship status, can be treated as disposable.

Our fight for immigrant rights is a fight for everyone’s rights. It’s a
fight for a country where no one has to prove their humanity to be free.

[ [link removed] ]If you’re with me in that fight, please consider making a donation to
our grassroots campaign today. Together, we can build a country that
values dignity over detention, compassion over cruelty, and justice over
fear.



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With urgency,

Angela



 


 




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