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Send a letter to your congressional representatives, urging them to sponsor legislation explicitly banning the use of concentration camp or forced labor in the United States: ⸻ [Your Full Name] [Your Street Address] [City, State, ZIP Code] [Email Address] [Phone Number] [Date] The Honorable [Representative’s Full Name] [Office Address] United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Representative [Last Name], I write to you as a deeply concerned citizen and constituent, urgently requesting that you introduce and champion legislation to explicitly ban the use of labor from concentration camps or any form of forced labor within the United States, including labor by detained or incarcerated individuals under coercive conditions. Recent developments—including proposed policies that would detain undocumented immigrants in large-scale facilities and potentially reassign them as unpaid or underpaid labor—raise the alarm for all who cherish democracy, human dignity, and the rule of law. The parallels with past atrocities, from Nazi Germany’s exploitation of camp labor for corporate profit to the Soviet Union’s forced labor gulags, are chilling. In both cases, businesses were enticed by the promise of cheap, dehumanized labor—and civil society failed to resist in time. We have no excuse to repeat that failure. Even in America’s own past, slavery was rationalized for economic gain. The loophole in the Thirteenth Amendment—which permits slavery “as punishment for a crime”—remains dangerously exploitable, especially as people labeled “undocumented” or “denaturalized” are increasingly framed as criminals without due process. This opens the door to legal forms of enslavement on a massive scale. The time to act is now, not after this becomes normalized. I ask you to lead by introducing a bill that: • Prohibits any federal, state, or private entity from employing or contracting forced labor of detainees or prisoners without fair wages, protections, and consent; • Prevents any government program or contractor from profiting through labor arrangements tied to immigration detention or mass incarceration; • Closes the Thirteenth Amendment loophole by affirming that all labor must be free, fair, and voluntary—regardless of legal status. Such a bill would not only clarify our national values, but serve as a moral firewall against the creeping normalization of fascist policy. We must not let euphemism, profit incentives, or partisan inertia draw us into complicity. You are undoubtedly committed to justice and human rights. I ask you to act on that commitment by drafting and advocating for a law that will ensure America never again becomes a nation where slavery—by any name—is tolerated. With hope and determination, [Your Full Name] [Your City or District] [Optional: “Registered voter in [District]