An open letter to the U.S. Congress

Stop arrests and deportations that lack proper legal review

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Please take action to stop warrantless seizure, and deportation of people, resident or visiting this country, by ICE and other federal forces. Several tourists have been detained for days by Immigration officials. Residents have had their electronic equipment searched, and I expect tourists have also had equipment searched. Tourism is dropping. Visas, especially student visas are being abruptly cancelled. Foreign students have been seized off the streets by masked men, without warrants. They have been removed to out of state detention centers or deported to a foreign jail without a hearing. The conditions in a particular foreign jail appear to be comparable to those in Nazi concentration camps of the thirties.The offense has been as minor as writing a letter to the editor that the government didn’t like. Why should international students enroll in American educational institutions? On Friday a judge was arrested for not allowing an ICE team, without a judicial warrant, to seize a someone in her courtroom. Minor citizens are being deported without thorough hearings. These incidents appear to violate people’s Constitutional protections. These actions make me afraid that the government regards anyone that disagrees with their policies as criminal. President Trump has mentioned deporting “home-grown” dissenters. This again appears to be a violation of peoples’ Constitutional rights to express their objections to policy in the social media and in print. And the whole situation makes me afraid that no resident of the USA is safe from actions by ICE and other federal forces.

▶ Created on April 27, 2025 by Judith

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