***IMMEDIATE ACTION***TRUMP ILLEGALLY DECLARES WAR ON IMMIGRANTs [3-23-25]
On March 16, the Trump MAGA regime misused the 1798 Wartime Act, which could only be invoked during wartime, to abduct Venezuelan immigrants from our communities, based entirely on unsubstantiated allegations of membership in a Venezuelan gang—which they were not allowed to challenge—and illegally sent them to a fellow dictator in El Salvador, in violation of a court order, who has agreed to hold them for at least a year in a mega-prison known for its extreme overcrowding and human rights abuses at an annual cost to taxpayers of $6 million.
Trump’s attempt to use a wartime authority for immigration enforcement is both unprecedented and lawless, dragging us back to the internment of Japanese-Americans and the Red Scare—dark chapters of our history where people in power silenced, seized, and sequestered others based on what they looked like or where they came from.
If presidents can do whatever they want—declaring us at war when we aren’t, which then gives him the power to arrest, detain, and disappear all migrants 14 and older any time he wants—including putting then on a plane and sending them to prisons in a foreign country with no due process whatsoever, who are we as a country?
Now is the time for all who value liberty and justice to unite and fiercely defend our communities against this assault on our freedom to keep our loved ones safe and our families whole.
Our MoC’s must stand united with us in outrage, loudly denounce these horrendous, illegal, fascist acts, introduce a resolution condemning Trump for behaving like a king, and call out MAGA sympathizers as the racist bigots they are.
ACTION One: Call the Senate and the House.
SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
SEN. WYDEN: Portland office: 503-326-7525 | D.C. office: 202-224-5244
REP. BONAMICI: Oregon office: 503-469-6010 | D.C. office: 202-225-0855
REP. BENTZ: Medford office: 541-776-4646 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
REP. DEXTER: Portland office: 503-231-2300 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
REP. HOYLE: Eugene office: 541-465-6732 | D.C. office: 202-225-6416
REP. BYNUM: D.C. office: 202-225-5711
REP. SALINAS: Salem office: 503-385-0906 | D.C. office: 202-225-5643
