Tell Congress: Defund and dismantle Trump's DHS secret police forces!
Please join me in this!
The illegal actions by federal officers - detaining protestors without any explanation, identification as to who they are or which agency they represent - have little parallel in recent U.S. history.
But unaccountable police forces operating with impunity? That’s a reality that Black and brown communities have been living with for generations.
Eighteen years ago, the Department of Homeland Security was created as a cabinet-level office in the wake of 9/11. Almost immediately, Muslim communities and others found themselves targeted.
Broad authorities granted in the last two decades of the "Global War on Terror" have long allowed overreach and abuse by agencies and programs that have systematically targeted Black and brown communities as threats.
Trump's decision to ramp up the deployment of unaccountable federal officers in an election year is an escalation of these practices - as well as his own authoritarian and unconstitutional acts, from the Muslim Ban to housing undocumented families in cages at the border.
It's time to use every tool in our toolbox to demand a stop to Trump’s drift to authoritarianism.
Please take the first step and sign on to our petition to Congress here: Defund and dismantle Trump’s DHS secret police forces
Thanks!
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The illegal actions by federal officers - detaining protestors without any explanation, identification as to who they are or which agency they represent - have little parallel in recent U.S. history.
But unaccountable police forces operating with impunity? That’s a reality that Black and brown communities have been living with for generations.
Eighteen years ago, the Department of Homeland Security was created as a cabinet-level office in the wake of 9/11. Almost immediately, Muslim communities and others found themselves targeted.
Broad authorities granted in the last two decades of the "Global War on Terror" have long allowed overreach and abuse by agencies and programs that have systematically targeted Black and brown communities as threats.
Trump's decision to ramp up the deployment of unaccountable federal officers in an election year is an escalation of these practices - as well as his own authoritarian and unconstitutional acts, from the Muslim Ban to housing undocumented families in cages at the border.
It's time to use every tool in our toolbox to demand a stop to Trump’s drift to authoritarianism.
Please take the first step and sign on to our petition to Congress here: Defund and dismantle Trump’s DHS secret police forces
Thanks!
This entry was originally posted at https://thnidu.dreamwidth.org/1820631.html. You can comment here, or there using OpenID or your Dreamwidth ID.
comments there so far.