ICE Keeps Arresting Prominent Democrats. He Just Became One of Them. He Told Me Exactly What Happened.

There’s an important tradition of bearing witness, of nonviolent civic action, of saying, “I am going to object when people’s rights are being stripped away from them.” I was focused on that: Asking the questions about where the authority comes from, objecting to the due-process violations, insisting that the rule of law be followed. It is good for individuals when ICE comes to ask to see a judicial warrant, but I also will say I’m not an immigration attorney, and whatever the situation turns out to be, it can’t be acceptable that people did everything right, presented themselves at the border, had a hearing, came to their hearing, filed their asylum application, and then just because DHS says, “Ah, we’re going to dismiss the case,” all of a sudden have no rights at all and can be disappeared into detention and deported with no rights whatsoever. But if Americans by the thousands, by the millions, show up as we did over the weekend at the No Kings march in peaceful, nonviolent witness, we can respond to this moment of crisis with a love of our democracy and what it means to be governed by the rule of law.

Author: Aymann Ismail

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