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Investigate ICE's 40-Hour Community Lockdown and Halt Rogue DHS Operations

To: Rep. Elfreth, Sen. Van Hollen, Sen. Alsobrooks

From: A verified voter in Arnold, MD

September 8

You need to investigate and publicly condemn what ICE just did to an American community. Agents occupied a neighborhood for 40 hours, brutalizing dozens of residents who were too afraid to leave their own homes. These were not criminals or activists — they were homeowners and residents put under siege by their own government. This is not law enforcement. This is an occupying force operating on American soil against American communities. There are also credible reports from detainees at Eloy detention center that people are being given just one cup of ice chips per day — no adequate water, no citrus. People will die if this continues unchecked. You have oversight authority. Use it. Demand answers from DHS, hold public hearings, and cut off any funding enabling these operations until there is full accountability. Silence right now is complicity.

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