1. United States
2. Mich.
3. Letter

We want concrete pledges telling us what you’re doing in response to Good’s killing. Words are not enough. The raids on our communities, human rights abuses against immigrants and peaceful protestors, and escalating violence by Trump’s secret police are all being turbo-charged by a massive increase in ICE’s budget passed by Republicans last year. We’re seeing the consequences in real-time and the response cannot be to just issue denouncements and calls for investigations. Democrats committing to using their leverage to rein in ICE‌’s violent, lawless behavior is the bare minimum. We need leaders who will stand up for American communities being terrorized by Trump’s fascist death squads. We need leaders who don’t have to consult poll-tested messaging to answer: ‘No, we shouldn’t be giving ICE more money to kill and brutalize innocent people.’ We need a Democratic Party that unifies in opposition to this regime. We can’t hold the regime accountable if we have to waste time and resources pleading, begging, and cajoling our elected leaders to do their damn jobs and stand up for their constituents and the Constitution they swore to uphold.