- United States
- Maine
- Letter
USE THE LEVERAGE: SQUASH ICE & STOP TRUMP VOTER INTERFERENCE SCHEME
To: Sen. King
From: A verified voter in Lewiston, ME
January 30
NO DEAL for ICE FUNDING without CONDITIONS, ACCOUNTABILITY & CONSEQUENCES & ELECTION PROTECTION.
This may be your last moment of leverage. DO NOT GIVE IT AWAY without MAXIMUM concessions.
For ICE: no more arrest quotas. (To get the signing bonus, ICE agents need to arrest 8 people a day for 5 years. That's 2080 a year; times 22, 000 agents =228,900,000 in 5 years. OR half the population of the US.) NO MASKS. NO Roving patrols. NO PROFILING. NOTHING WITHOUT JUDICIAL WARRANTS. NO more immunity. NO detaining and DEPORTING US citizens. ICE concentration camps must be open to inspection at all times and meet standards for safety and welfare. Investigations of ALL ICE KILLINGS and deaths in custody. NO refusal to share evidence with state. Dismiss all agents who broke rules, who are members of the proud boys, were Jan 6-ets, have domestic violence convictions. NOEM and STEPHEN MILLER MUST BE REMOVED. NO SHUFFLING MONEY AROUND IN DHS. .... ICE ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE AND DATA COLLECTION ON we the people MUST BE STOPPED.NO MORE LIES and defamation of their victims from ICE. NO ICE PRESENCE while polls are open. GET ICE BACK TO THE BORDERS.
--DEmand that immigration enforcement be data-driven: cities and states with low immigration and low crime rates (Maine and Minnesota) should not roving enforcement.
It's CLEAR BY NOW THAT TRUMP WANTS TO SET UP VOTER INTIMIDATION AND VOTER SUPPRESSION TO STEAL THE ELECTION. He is desperate because he knows he will be impeached if he loses congressional majorities.
DEMANDING VOTER ROLLS in exchange for removing ICE is the big tell. STEALING VOTING RECORDS from FULTON COUNTY should be treated like a 5-alarm fire.
YOU NEED TO BE STRATEGIC: We will lose our democracy and free elections if fail to use your leverage now to address Trump's election interference agenda. The GOP has linked it to ICE and ANTI-IMMIGRANT LIES. YOU need to counter these: not by repeating the lies, but by stating the truth, erecting guard rails and showing that those aim to interfere will face consequences. ALL INVOLVED IN THE GEORGIA BALLOT THEFT SHOULD BE FIRED BEFORE YOU CONSIDER ANY FUNDING FOR DHS Immigration enforcement.