Let’s be clear about one thing: Renee Good should still be alive. Whether you embrace or reject protesting, she did not deserve to die. ICE agents in Minnesota have shown a callous indifference to the value of life- all lives- whether you’re a citizen, a documented immigrant, or an undocumented immigrant. Nothing has kept people safe from the strategic brutality of ICE in Minnesota.
ICE agents in Minnesota are trying to scare and provoke us. They’re NOT actually here to investigate fraud, reduce crime, or even deport undocumented immigrants. If that were their real mission, they wouldn’t have sent the largest ICE force in history to a state with one of the lowest populations of undocumented immigrants, and they wouldn’t be roaming our neighborhoods like lawless street gangs. The one thing law enforcement must do is follow the law. Armed forces that don’t follow the law are nothing more than thugs.
Never before has Minnesota been invaded by over 3,000 federal agents. Never before has Minnesota needed to defend its own citizens against the federal government. Never before have federal forces so recklessly endangered our communities, ignored our laws, damaged our economy, blatantly and repeatedly lied to courts and judges, and then tried to blame their own cruelty on us.
But they have failed. We are not afraid. We will not give up. And if elected to Congress, I will not forget. If elected, I will fight for this Anti-ICE Bill of Rights:
- Cut ICE funding immediately to pre-Trump levels, then Replace ICE with a federal immigration agency that Americans can trust and that obeys the Law and Constitution.
- Launch full Congressional investigation into ICE’s illegal, unconstitutional, and abusive actions, including senior administration officials
- Ban federal agents from wearing masks in the course of their duties
- Require federal agents to identify themselves, their agency, their mission, and charges when detaining or arresting someone.
- Ban federal agents from detaining or arresting people without probable cause or a judicial warrant
- Restrict qualified immunity for federal agents by amending section 1983 of the civil rights act to explicitly include all federal agents, and codify and extend the Supreme Court’s Biven standard to include law enforcement actions.
- Require federal agencies to notify families and attorneys of the locations where their relatives are being detained and what charges they face
- Protect First Amendment rights by changing federal agent guidelines on the use of force guidelines to narrowly define what counts as impending or obstructing federal agents to
- Automatic budget cuts for Homeland Security agencies that fail to follow federal court orders as soon as practically possible.
- Revised the Posse Comitatus and Insurrection Acts to restrict the circumstances under which a President can send military forces or National Guard troops into states