John, It’s Summer.
I want you to hear this directly from me. This weekend, I joined hundreds of neighbors in Pittsburgh — in the snow — to march to the building that houses ICE offices in our city.
Neighbors showing up for neighbors. Families braving the cold together. A community making it clear that NO ONE here stands alone. Because when our neighbors are being terrorized — we refuse to look away.
If we want to protect our people, we have to invest in the fight ahead. That’s why I’m asking you personally today: Will you click here and chip in $10, $25, or whatever you can right now to help us keep organizing, protesting, and holding ICE accountable at every turn?
When I stood outside that ICE building with my constituents, I was thinking about the same thing I thought when I went straight to ICE headquarters in D.C. to demand Kristi Noem’s firing:
You can’t reform oppression. You can’t reform hatred. You have to abolish it. You have to extinguish it wherever it exists. And that work takes all of us.
ICE has been completely out of control. They’re operating with impunity. They’re kidnapping our neighbors. They’re harming our loved ones. They’re instilling fear in entire communities.
Some people think — as long as it’s happening somewhere else, it’s not our problem. But if they can do it in Minneapolis… if they can do it in Chicago… they will do it anywhere. It’s only a matter of time.
That’s why Pittsburgh showed up. Families. Students. Elders. Organizers. Faith leaders.
People who said:
We will protect our neighbors.
We will stand in solidarity with immigrant communities.
We will not consent to this fear.
I met parents who are organizing to walk kids to school so they feel safe. Community members ready to escort neighbors to hospitals so they aren’t afraid to get care.
That’s what solidarity looks like.
That’s what love looks like in action.
And that’s what this movement needs more of.
John, people came to this country — whether generations ago or recently — believing it was the land of the free.
A place where you could go to school…Go to worship…Go home at night…Without fear of being disappeared or forced to show your papers. And we all know right now that dream is under threat.
So we have a choice: We can stay in fear. Or we can channel that fear into protection. Into solidarity. Into action.
Y’all know I’m choosing action.
I stood outside ICE’s doors in Pittsburgh and in DC and I’ll keep showing up wherever this fight takes us. But I can’t do it alone.
This is one of those moments that will define who we are as a community. Whether we stay silent, or whether we stand up for our neighbors when it matters most.
In solidarity,
Summer
