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When you break bread for God this weekend, remember your actions serve no Gods.

To: Rep. Kean, Sen. Kim, Sen. Booker

From: A verified voter in Budd Lake, NJ

April 4

As you gather for Passover and Easter—holidays rooted in liberation, renewal, and moral responsibility—there is a truth you cannot outrun. While you sit at full tables with your families, thousands of undocumented immigrants remain confined in U.S. detention facilities under conditions that should shame a nation that claims to value human dignity. They are drinking dirty water. They are given inadequate food. Disease spreads in overcrowded spaces. Many have no clear timeline, no due process, and no hope. This is happening under your authority. Passover commemorates freedom from bondage. Easter speaks to sacrifice, mercy, and the triumph of life over suffering. Yet the policies you fund and sustain stand in direct contradiction to those principles. You cannot claim to honor these traditions while presiding over a system that dehumanizes the vulnerable and treats human lives as expendable. This is not a matter of politics. It is a matter of moral clarity. You know the conditions. You control the funding. You have the power to change course—and you have chosen not to. So as you break bread this season, ask yourselves a simple question: what does it say about your leadership that the people in your custody are living without basic human necessities while you celebrate holidays centered on justice and compassion? History will not be kind to this contradiction. And neither will the people who see it clearly. End these conditions. Restore accountability. Align your actions with the values you so readily invoke. Anything less is hypocrisy.

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