[ [link removed] ]Ayanna Pressley for Congress

Last week, my sister-in-service Ilhan Omar invited me to
Minnesota. I went to bear witness, to listen, and to help people process
their grief and their trauma.

I visited the sacred space where Alex Pretti was executed in broad
daylight.

I met immigrants who make this country, and the state of Minnesota, great.
Those who fled authoritarian regimes in Colombia, Venezuela, Syria, and
Nicaragua. Who came here for a better life and to make positive
contributions. Who are so traumatized to be seeing in real time, the very
authoritarian, fascist, and cruel actions that they fled, showing up here
in Minnesota and in this country.

I braced myself for feeling defeated. But in each moment where my heart
would feel broken, it would be restored by the people of Minnesota and the
community of care they’ve created, despite the campaign of terror
reigning.

We have an occupant in the Oval Office who traffics in hate. He has
governed with malice and used ICE agents to terrorize our cities and rip
families apart.

ICE’s attacks on our neighbors have traumatized children, hurt our
communities, devastated small businesses, and left beloved people like
Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Keith Porter dead on our streets. They’ve
left many more dead in detention centers, awaiting medical care or better
conditions.

To be clear, none of it has kept anyone safe because it has nothing to do
with public safety. Not in Minnesota, not in Massachusetts, not anywhere
these escalations have been happening. It has everything to do with power,
control, intimidation, and oppression.

I felt compelled to stand in community with the people closest to the
pain, to join them in choosing community over chaos and cruelty. And
that’s exactly what’s happening in Minnesota: they are writing the
blueprint for the power of radical love and solidarity.

They are built different.

And they know that while there can never be true justice, there must be
accountability.

The agents who brutalized and executed our neighbors cannot walk away
freely. They must be investigated and held accountable for their crimes.

That means passing my bill to end qualified immunity for federal law
enforcement, including ICE agents.

It means impeaching Kristi Noem, who is as incompetent as she is
dangerous.

And it means abolishing ICE and dismantling the systems of oppression that
have gotten us to this point.

I thank Ilhan Omar, my sister-in-service, for her courageous leadership,
for the invitation to return to Minnesota to stand shoulder to shoulder
with my movement family, to seek justice, and to defend the oppressed.

In solidarity,

Ayanna




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