Tell your Members of Congress: Pass legislation to stop Trump's secret police!
Senator Dianne Feinstein
SF Office: (415) 393-0707
DC Office: (202) 224-3841
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Senator Kamala Harris
SF Office: (415) 981-9369
DC Office: (202) 224-3553
Sacramento Office: (916) 448-2787
LA Office: (213) 894-5000
San Diego Office: (619) 239-3884
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi
SF Office: (415) 556-4862
DC Office: (202) 225-4965
Email Contact: https://pelosi.house.gov/contact-me/email-me
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Rep. Jackie Speier
San Mateo Office: (650) 342-0300
DC Office: (202) 225-3531
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Call Script
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
I’m outraged that Trump continues to use federal agents as his own secret police with no accoutanbility.
I urge Congressional action to pass legislation which does the following:
Establishes that the recent deployment of federal troops to cities for partisan political purposes is “unlawful and repugnant "
Requires federal agents, excepting those in field offices working on current cases, to obtain consent from local authorities
Requires federal agents to visibly identify themselves
Limits “crowd control” actions to protecting federal property.
Background
For most of this month, federal authorities have been showing up to protest areas in Portland, Oregon, where protesters have already been under a month of regular assault by the Portland Police Bureau, and started snatching alleged protesters off the streets of Portland—considerable distances away from the federal property they’re ostensibly there to protect.
That protection was ordered by Trump on June 26, following a wave of protests that dismantled Confederate and other racist monuments. Trump’s executive order commanded federal authorities to protect “American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues” among other “government property.”
The order is terrifying enough, and the execution of it in Portland is more so. Federal authorities, under the command of DHS but not wearing name tags or other ID, have been prowling the streets—especially after dark—and shoving people they allege to be protesters into unmarked vehicles without reading them their rights or telling them why they’re being detained.
DHS issued a statement confirming the actions, which are still ongoing, and providing a list of alleged actions that form the pretext of DHS’s deployment. Most of the list is incidents of graffiti, with some property damage mixed in, and all of it attributed, without evidence, to “violent anarchists.”
Under the Constitution, every person is presumed innocent until they have been proven guilty of a specific crime in a court of law, and has the right to petition government for redress of grievances, to speak their minds freely, and to peaceably assemble.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has said that federal authorities are unwelcome, and further wrote a joint letter with several other mayors around the country calling for an end to the federal occupation.
Oregon Governor Kate Brown also issued a statement via Twitter condemning the federal occupation.
DHS Acting Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli confirmed to NPR that this is not an example of federal agents going rogue—this came from the top, and “this is a posture we intend to continue not just in Portland but in any of the facilities that we're responsible for around the country.” In the same interview, he confirmed that DHS had detained alleged protesters using unmarked vehicles in Portland, and that they are not limiting their activities to the vicinity of federal property (“If we spot them elsewhere, we will pick them up elsewhere.”).
CUCCINELLI: The legal justification is that they are people suspected of damaging or attacking federal personnel or property. That's the justification. That's the basis for jurisdiction.
Trump’s deployment of federal force to kidnap civilians, suppress protests, and slander protesters as “violent anarchists” is a terrifying abuse of power. Using militarized federal agencies to quell dissent violates both the letter and the spirit of the law that forbids using the US military on US residents.
We must come together to oppose this unconstitutional, uncivil brutality and demand that the rights of free speech and peaceable assembly and the presumption of innocence shall not be infringed.