Trump ran on a promise to the American people that ICE would go after "the worst of the worst."
What we have seen is that ICE is not overwhelmingly going after criminals. In fact, over 70% of people currently in ICE detention facilities do not have a criminal record.
So who are they going after?
They are going after 6-year-olds in my district.
They are going after students and permanent residents for their political views.
They are going after Americans born and raised in the United States.
At every point this administration has lied to us about ICE, while some of the wealthiest actors in our country have tried to sell us a myth to defend it — including private prison contractors.
That myth, that ideology, is that our immigrant neighbors are our enemies and more dangerous than us. And they sustain that myth because if everybody believes it, they can get away with robbing all of us.
I want to remind you where the real crime is:
It’s in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care, food assistance, and public programs to funnel it into a secret police program.
It’s the authoritarians trying to create a black box because, once it is established, they can put political dissidents inside of it.
But their hatred is based on a story, a myth. And we can choose to reject it.
Donald Trump wants you to believe that this is who we are as a country. We are here to say that it is not.
We are a country that has fought and defeated the confederacy. That has defeated a history of civil rights violations, of secret police, of fascism. We can, and will, again.
Help us continue the fight with a grassroots contribution today.
I ask us all to fight for that ideal. To fight for this legacy.
Thank you for standing with us.
In solidarity,
Alexandria
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