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John,
With Trump and Republicans’ Big Budget Betrayal signed into law, ICE is now the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency. More masked immigration agents are in our streets, unconstitutionally targeting vulnerable people.
We need to fight back at all levels to protect our neighbors from these violent, lawless immigration agents.
Even in Democrat-led cities and states, police and other government officials often share data and coordinate with ICE. So people are mobilizing to ask their city leaders to limit local law enforcement’s cooperation with ICE, and to ask their local sheriffs to refuse to cooperate with ICE’s unconstitutional kidnapping and detention of immigrants.1
At the state level, officials can also pass or implement stronger sanctuary policies (including preventing immigration detention centers), create statewide legal defense funds for immigrants, pass policies to protect immigrants’ civil and constitutional rights, and more.
In my home state of Michigan, a woman who reported her assault to the police was then sent to ICE detention to be deported.2 We can and must push for sanctuary policies that include provisions to allow immigrants to report crimes to the police without fear of deportation.3
I’m also fighting for immigrants’ rights in Congress, including co-sponsoring the No Secret Police Act of 2025, which would require federal immigration agents to identify themselves clearly and stop hiding their faces and badges from the public. But we need more pressure from the American people to pass policies in Congress as well as at the state and local levels.
Will you sign on today to demand your elected representatives—at all levels of government—defend our neighbors from lawless, masked immigration agents?
Thank you for speaking up for immigrants’ rights and our shared constitutional rights. For example, every single resident of the United States has the right to due process, including the right to a fair hearing in court.
Our due process rights are also meant to protect us from unlawful arrests by prohibiting law enforcement officers from arresting or abducting people without reasonable suspicion of a crime. And as a former immigration lawyer, I want to clarify that being undocumented is not a crime; it’s an issue for civil courts.
Instead of reasonable suspicion of a crime, ICE and other immigration agencies are kidnapping and detaining our neighbors just because of their skin color or because they’re speaking Spanish. This is racial profiling and it’s illegal.
Will you sign on today and take action to protect immigrants from lawless, masked ICE agents?
Together we will continue fighting for our rights and fighting against fascism.
With you in this fight,
Rashida
1 The #DisappearedInAmerica campaign’s “Talk to Your Sheriff Toolkit”is here.
2 Michigan woman reports being assaulted to police, now faces deportation
3 Policy Options: Protecting Immigrant Communities at the State and Local Level
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From: Rashida Tlaib
Date: Tues, Jul 29, 2025
Subject: Sign to stop lawless, masked immigration agents
To: [email protected]
John,
Violent ICE raids are terrorizing our communities. Masked agents have chased families of farmworkers, who’ve described feeling “hunted.” One farmworker recently died during a raid. Immigrants’ lives are not disposable!
In violation of the Constitution, federal agents are racially profiling people at worksites, courthouses, and schools. They’re also unconstitutionally kidnapping people without warrants or probable cause.
We need to fight back at all levels to protect our neighbors and protect our shared constitutional right to due process—which applies regardless of immigration status.
Please sign on to demand city, state, and federal officials defend our neighbors from lawless, masked immigration agents!
In my state of Michigan, a woman who reported her assault to the police was then sent to ICE detention and she’s about to be deported.1
Even in Democrat-led cities and states, police and other government officials regularly share data and coordinate with ICE. Right now, organizations are mobilizing people to ask their local sheriffs to refuse to cooperate with ICE’s unconstitutional kidnapping and detention of immigrants.2
People can also push their city leaders to limit local law enforcement’s cooperation with ICE or other federal immigration enforcement agencies. This is one component of many sanctuary policies, which can also include provisions preventing immigration detention centers or allowing immigrants to report crimes to the police without fear of deportation.3
State-level officials can also pass or implement stronger sanctuary policies, create statewide legal defense funds for immigrants, pass policies to protect immigrants’ civil and constitutional rights, and more.
And at the federal level, members of Congress must use our oversight role to hold immigration agencies accountable for violations of our laws and our rights.
For example, my colleagues have introduced multiple policies to force federal immigration agents to stop hiding their faces and badges—including the No Secret Police Act, the No Anonymity in Immigration Enforcement Act, and the Combating Deceptive Immigration Enforcement Practices Act.
I promise to continue fighting for a just immigration system and pushing to abolish ICE. But we urgently need people to press their representatives at all levels of government, asking them to do all they can to defend immigrants and citizens who are at risk of racial profiling.
Please sign on today and demand your elected representatives at all levels of government defend our neighbors from lawless, masked immigration agents!
Thank you for taking action. Instead of sending hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to expand ICE (as part of Trump’s Big Budget Betrayal), our government must dismantle ICE and invest in what communities need. Together, we’ll keep working to make a better world with dignity and safety for all.
In solidarity,
Rashida
P.S. You can find Know Your Rights information and other resources for immigrants here.
1 Michigan woman reports being assaulted to police, now faces deportation
2 The #DisappearedInAmerica campaign has a “Talk to Your Sheriff Toolkit” here.
3 Policy Options: Protecting Immigrant Communities at the State and Local Level, Sanctuary Policies: An Overview
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