1. United States
2. Ind.
3. Letter

Please work with your Democratic colleagues to help stop unconstitutional and authoritarian behaviors by DHS and ICE. As recently written by the New York Times editorial board, “A special feature of the our republic is the Bill of Rights, created to protect Americans against overreach by the federal government. The purpose of the Constitution, as a result, is not just to grant powers to the federal government but to define the limits of those powers. Congressional Republicans took an oath to uphold the Constitution. They took an oath to uphold those limits — to prevent the government from engaging in these kinds of abuses — and they must do so. The current crisis isn’t just a test of the balance of powers. It’s a test of the Bill of Rights.” Your constituents depend on you to uphold this oath.