My Eleven Point Plan for DHS
I was at an event last week in Portsmouth, and let me tell you, people are angry, and they want answers. Why is this happening? What is our plan to get us out of this mess? What should our elected officials be doing right now as Congress negotiates funding the Department of Homeland Security?
It’s easy to heckle from the sidelines. Voters deserve to know: what would you do if you held the power?
Here are my 11 points for immigration negotiations — or, in other words, what I want to see our federal delegation fight for over the next two weeks:
Acknowledge and apologize for the role they have played in creating the situation that we find ourselves in — including voting to confirm Kristi Noem, who has no business serving as our Secretary of Homeland Security, and voting for the Laken Riley Act, which paved the way for the deportation-industrial complex and the utter dismantling of constitutional protections by implying a link between criminality and immigration status.
Demand that Kristi Noem resign.
Launch an impeachment inquiry to remove Kristi Noem from office if she is not fired or does not resign.
Ensure ICE stops tracking, surveilling, and intimidating protestors by using their biometric data, adding them to the “domestic terrorist” watchlist, weaponizing the no-fly list, etc.
Insist that ICE and CBP agents receive better training — lay out what that entails. Currently, we have no clue. Clearly, it’s insufficient. Raise the bar for who is allowed to be an ICE agent.
Require DHS agents to wear body cameras and TURN THEM on at all times. Enforce this rule by disciplining and dismissing the people who do not follow it.
Require independent inquiries into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Hold the people who killed them accountable using the justice system and processes we have established as a country.
Conduct inquiries into the deaths of the 32 people who died in ICE detention last year, and the 6 who have died this year.
Ensure ICE pays what is owed to municipalities, counties, medical providers, and states around the country.
FIGHT for Habeas Corpus — a cornerstone of due process.
REFUSE to FUND DHS without actual accountability, increased oversight, and REAL CHANGES to how it operates NOW. If you don’t get 1-10, then vote NO.
The clock is ticking. The longer politicians in Washington wait to fix our broken immigration system and force ICE, CBP, and Kristi Noem to face real accountability, the more emboldened DHS becomes in its efforts to trample over our rights and terrorize innocent people.
