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To: Senator Rand Paul, Chair, Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee; Senate Majority Leader John Thune; Representative Andrew Garbarino, Chair, House Homeland Security Committee; Speaker of the House Mike Johnson

Conduct Televised Public Hearings on the Mass Deportation Now Policy

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"O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!"
~ Shakespeare

Over the past year, the White House has directed a brutal campaign of violence against American cities: the so-called Mass Deportation Now policy. Federal agents, often wearing masks to hide their identity, have

  • Used poison gas and pepper spray against civilians, even children,
  • Fired pepper balls at peoples' heads, including members of the clergy praying,
  • Assaulted civilians, mayors and members of Congress,
  • Kidnapped, blinded and killed civilians,
  • Damaged and destroyed their property,
  • Denied them medical care in detention,
  • Sent them to foreign prisons in direct violation of federal court orders, and
  • Used children as bait to detain their parents - and the children themselves!

There are hundreds of pages of court records documenting these violations of the Bill of Rights, thousands of witnesses and hundreds of hours of video evidence of these atrocities. Hardly a day goes by without new attacks, and yet the only people who could - by law - end this, the Senate and House of Representatives, do not intervene.

Let's be clear - the Mass Deportation Now attacks on civilians are directed by the White House. They campaigned on it, and only a veto-proof vote of the Senate and House of Representatives can end it. It is long past time for Congress to take the necessary steps bring the brutal Mass Deportation Now policy to a swift end, and to document for history how we allowed it to happen.

The first step in this process is public hearings in both the House and Senate. Hearings will place the witnesses' stories in the Congressional Record, hold the White House accountable for violations of the Bill of Rights, and determine what new laws are needed so that this defiance of the Bill of Rights can never happen again.

When you become Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader, or the chair of a House or Senate committee, you no longer answer only to voters in your district or state, but to all Americans. You are the people who set the direction for Congress.

I ask of you only two things:

  1. Commit to holding televised public hearings so the victims of Mass Deportation Now can tell their stories, and the people who violated the Bill of Rights can be held accountable, and
  2. Craft new laws to end the attacks on civilians and guarantee that such abuses can never happen again.

Why is this important?

The only way we can end the brutal Mass Deportation Now campaign is to persuade Republicans in Congress to use their votes to end it.

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