- United States
- Fla.
- Letter
I am writing in anger and disgust over what is being done in this country in the name of immigration enforcement, and over your silence while it happens.
ICE has become a rogue agency. People are being detained without warrants, seized off the streets without explanation, denied due process, and in some cases killed, all while accountability evaporates. Armed agents in military gear, faces hidden behind masks, refusing to identify themselves — this is not law enforcement in a constitutional republic. This is the behavior of an authoritarian state.
The Constitution is not ambiguous. The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires warrants based on probable cause. The Fifth guarantees due process. The Sixth guarantees the right to face one’s accusers. None of these rights disappear because someone is an immigrant. None of them disappear because an agency decides they are inconvenient.
Masked federal agents abducting people from communities is something Americans are supposed to condemn when it happens abroad — not rationalize when it happens here.
The use of military-grade equipment against civilians is indefensible. Neighborhoods are not war zones. The deliberate choice to conceal the identities of officers involved in detentions — and deaths — is a direct assault on accountability. When agents cannot be identified, abuse is inevitable. That is not an accident; it is the point.
You swore an oath to the Constitution, not to ICE, not to political fearmongering, and not to silence. Your refusal to speak out signals approval. Your inaction signals consent.
This is not a debate about immigration policy. It is about whether the rule of law still exists, or whether federal agents are allowed to operate above it. It is about whether Americans are expected to accept secret-police tactics as normal.
If you believe these actions are lawful, then say so publicly and explain how they align with the Constitution you claim to defend. If you do not, then act like it.
History is watching. Your constituents are watching. And I am watching.
Angrily,