1. United States
2. Fla.
3. Letter

I am writing to you as a constituent who is no longer willing to accept silence, delay, or carefully worded statements in the face of what is now unmistakably a constitutional and moral crisis. On January 24, 2026, a Minneapolis VA ICU nurse was killed by federal agents during a domestic enforcement operation. Video evidence raises grave doubts about the government’s account and about whether deadly force was lawful or necessary. This was not an isolated incident. It follows other recent shootings by federal immigration personnel operating inside American cities. What troubles me just as deeply as the killing itself is Congress’s role in allowing conditions where this outcome became inevitable. Through inaction, funding, and political convenience, you and your colleagues have been complicit in the steady normalization of masked federal agents conducting armed operations in civilian neighborhoods with minimal transparency and virtually no accountability. You have allowed an enforcement apparatus to grow that now operates as if constitutional limits are optional. I do not use the word “complicit” lightly. At some point, responsibility no longer belongs only to the agents who pulled the trigger or the officials who issued the orders. It belongs to the legislators who continue to authorize the money, the authority, and the silence. Frankly, I do not know how any member of Congress who claims to be guided by Christian faith can reconcile this with the teachings of Jesus Christ. The values repeatedly invoked on the campaign trail—human dignity, the sanctity of life, humility before power, care for the vulnerable, restraint in the use of force—are nowhere to be found in this administration’s conduct or in Congress’s failure to restrain it. Whatever this government is standing for, it is the opposite of what Christ taught. You should understand this: your children, and their children after them, will one day learn what you did when the Constitution was being hollowed out in real time. Your legacy will not be defined by press releases or party talking points. It will be defined by whether you defended the rights of ordinary citizens or enabled their erosion. At best, history will record many of today’s elected officials as hypocrites. At worst, as collaborators in the dismantling of the Republic. If citizens can be killed while documenting law enforcement, then the First Amendment is hollow. If citizens can be disarmed or executed by the state without transparent due process, then the Second Amendment is meaningless. And if Congress continues to fund and excuse this behavior, then our system of checks and balances is already broken. Our country is now visibly approaching a point of fracture. You do not need to endorse violence to recognize reality: when people lose faith in lawful accountability, social stability collapses. If this trajectory ends in widespread civil unrest or worse, the responsibility will rest heavily on the lawmakers who saw the danger and chose comfort, party loyalty, or career safety instead of action. That blood will not be abstract. It will belong to constituents you were sworn to protect. At minimum, I expect you to publicly support: 1. Immediate congressional hearings into federal domestic enforcement operations and use-of-force policies. 2. Full public release of all body-camera and surveillance footage related to this killing. 3. Statutory requirements that federal agents operating domestically wear visible identification and body cameras. 4. Independent DOJ and Inspector General investigations into recent federal shootings in Minnesota. 5. Restrictions on domestic deployment of ICE, CBP, and HSI absent clear jurisdictional authority and civilian oversight. If Senate leadership is unwilling to confront this administration, then they should be willing to shut down the government rather than continue financing it. No democracy survives when its legislature keeps writing checks for its own irrelevance.