1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

I am writing to you today because rounding up human beings and expelling them from their homes is not a policy, it is a crime against humanity dressed up in enforcement language and sold to frightened people by cynical ones. Mass deportation does not make America safer. It removes people who have built lives, paid taxes, raised children who are American citizens, and contributed to their communities for decades — in some cases longer than the people deporting them have been alive. It is being carried out with the kind of cruelty that has historically required a great deal of national reckoning to recover from. The economic argument alone should give pause to anyone who claims to care about American prosperity. The agricultural, construction, food service, and healthcare industries are not theoretical beneficiaries of immigrant labor. They are structurally dependent on it. Removing that labor force does not create jobs for Americans. It collapses supply chains and raises prices for everyone. But an even greater issue than the economics: these are human beings, and this government is treating them with a contempt that is a stain on every value we claim to hold. I am asking you to use every tool available to you to halt, defund, and dismantle the mass deportation apparatus being built with our tax dollars. Please make it stop.