rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/letter/fight-to-stop-ices-lawless-anti-american-tactics?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-letter-area-fight-to-stop-ices-lawless-anti-american-tactics' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> National Campaign for Justice https://actionnetwork.org/groups/just-strategy https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg Across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are operating in secrecy. They are wearing masks, refusing to show identification, arresting people without warrants, and detaining them without reading their rights. These aren’t just anti-American tactics. They’re authoritarian, unaccountable, and completely unacceptable in any country that claims to follow the rule of law. This is not supposed to happen in America. Law enforcement is supposed to wear badges and identification. They show their faces. They read you your rights. When ICE violates every one of those principles, it isn’t protecting the country. It’s undermining it. ICE claims it’s for “officer safety.” But what about the safety of everyday people, like restaurant staff, gardeners, and bystanders who can’t tell if these masked men are law enforcement or violent impersonators? What about the civil rights of legal residents swept up in these raids without cause? Whether it’s local officials, like NYC Comptroller Brad Lander and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka or members of Congress, like Senator Alex Padilla and Rep. LaMonica McIver, even elected leaders have been arrested or handcuffed trying to observe or intervene in illegal ICE operations. All of this is happening as people whose names never make the news, neighbors, workers, critical members of our communities, are being locked up and then deported without due process. Students are taken for speaking out. Parents are arrested outside of schools. Workers are dragged from job sites by masked men with no badges and no warrants. Congress must step in. Lawmakers need to launch a full investigation and pass legislation that bans these disgraceful tactics. That includes outlawing the use of masks and face coverings, requiring agents to display identification, and automatically vacating warrantless arrests and people detained without being informed of their rights. This is a crisis of power without accountability. It is happening and it won’t stop unless we demand it. Click ‘START WRITING’ to sign and send a direct message demanding Congress investigate ICE and pass legislation that protects the public from anti-American tactics now. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/fight-to-stop-ices-lawless-anti-american-tactics