Right now, in California, New York, Texas, and everywhere in between, ICE agents are ramping up to meet Stephen Miller’s hate-fueled quota of 3,000 people per day. Three thousand families ripped apart. A father dropping off a student at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria was kidnapped in early October. A father in New York was shot in front of his 5-year-old son. The hotlines of rapid response networks and immigrants’ rights organizations are exploding with frantic texts. It is, perhaps, not a coincidence that we are less than a month away from the midterm election.
Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress. They have the power to stop this but refuse to act. Remember the “One Big Beautiful Bill”? The one that took food out of the mouths of hungry children, threw people off Medicaid, closed rural hospitals, and gave more tax breaks to the rich? It also gave billions of dollars to ICE. That bill passed without a single Democratic vote.
Is this the kind of country you want?
We have the power to hold ICE and the Republicans accountable. We have the power to elect people who still believe in democracy, who don’t take crypto and AI and corporate money, and who want to make a better country. There are dozens of them running for Congress all over the country. In the words of the young climate activist Greta Thunberg, “The one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere.”
Act now. Vote.
Alison Jones
Baywood-Los Osos
This article appears in Pets 2026.
As much as it annoys open-border liberals, we are entitled to control our borders. The flood of illegals that Biden invited in was a big reason that the Democrats lost to Trump. And, if you are concerned about social spending being limited, perhaps you should have paid attention to the massive fraudulent schemes in Democratic states like Minnesota, where hundreds of millions were lost to politically-tolerated criminal enterprises like the famous “Learing Center”.
Preach it, brother.
Well said Alison Jones. I completely agree.
ICE is terrorizing our communities with the violence and law breaking, here in America.
ICE/DHS are Trump’s lawless secret police, and an extension of the Trump – Putin style mobster crime syndicate attempting to destroy our Democracy.
Before January 2025, everything Trump and his ICE gestapo, along with his cabinet of sycophants have done and are doing was and is Illegal.
And they still are illegal for ICE agents, and all of Trump’s sycophants in his cabinet.
The actions ICE agents are taking are illegal for all other branches of Law Enforcement; and should still be illegal for ICE agents as well.
This State Sanctioned terrorism is not right, and this is not America if it continues.
It is looking more and more like a Putin style dictatorship every day. Look at the Headlines!
Anyone who agrees with this Trump/ICE state sanctioned terrorist regime are doing, like John, are appeasers of fascism.
Vote like Your Freedoms, Your Lives, and Your Futures Depend on It. Because they do!
As someone who was actually detained on a dark, cold street in SLO at 6:15, alone, if any resents ICE, it would be me. As John donegan noted, my brief detainment was blowback from his generation, my late parents generation, allowing millions of illegals flood our country to keep the illusion ofow prices going for as long as possible, while their icon, Bill Clinton, signed NAFTA into law and sent our jobs overseas
That nonsense has run its course, we want our country back and it starts by removing 40 million illegals