Unprecedented

It’s unprecedented. Anyone who looks like they could be an undocumented immigrant can be targeted. People who have no criminal history can be targeted.  Immigrants following the process for naturalization can be targeted. Some American citizens have been targeted. 
Heavily armed, masked I.C.E. agents, without warrants, are abducting people from their homes, workplaces, and churches.  They are pulling people out of their vehicles and separating parents from their children. Armed I.C.E. agents are even going to children’s schools and are detaining people without due process. Are these the places I.C.E. agents expect to find hardened criminals?
So why should we care about the treatment of these people? 
Because a core American value is to show concern and compassion for people at risk.  And because what is happening to them, being picked up, detained, and held without due process, can happen to any of us. Without the rule of law as outlined in the Constitution, we all become “vulnerable” people no matter what our political views are.
This is not a time for “us versus them” language, “what about-isms,” and over-generalizations. It is time to find common ground in areas that concern all of us across the political spectrum. Concerns not just about the Constitutional rights of immigrants (yes, they do have rights!), but also inflation, healthcare affordability, bipartisan cooperation in Congress, gun violence, and climate change to name just a few.
It’s time to speak up and call out the erosion of our system of checks and balances. 
It’s time to elect a Congress in 2026 that will restore the balance of power essential to our democracy.