I was horrified to see that you voted with Republicans to express gratitude to ICE and to urge stronger cooperation between ICE and local government.
You live in a community that includes many immigrant families--our neighbors, friends, co-workers, employees--who are now in danger of summary detention and deportation. Parents live in constant fear of ICE appearing at their homes, their workplaces, on the street. Children have nightmares about their parents being taken away.
The only thing mitigating the anxiety that these families endure is the knowledge that Ulster County is generally welcoming to immigrants, regardless of status--a position that you once endorsed as county executive. Police will not do ICE’s dirty work. School districts are staunch in their protection of their students.
Perhaps it was the “antisemitism” aspect of this House resolution that particularly appealed to you—you’d like to see ICE abduct and deport more protesters under the totally specious argument that protesting genocide is antisemitic. What would you say to the courageous Israelis who are now standing up and declaring horror over the atrocities committed by the IDF, with the full material support of the US?
At this point in history, the old labels—antisemitism, anti-Zionist, pro-Israel, anti-Israel, etc –are irrelevant. You are either pro-genocide or anti-genocide.
It is unbearable to know that I am represented in Congress by someone who supports both genocide and the brutality of ICE.
Jo Salas
You live in a community that includes many immigrant families--our neighbors, friends, co-workers, employees--who are now in danger of summary detention and deportation. Parents live in constant fear of ICE appearing at their homes, their workplaces, on the street. Children have nightmares about their parents being taken away.
The only thing mitigating the anxiety that these families endure is the knowledge that Ulster County is generally welcoming to immigrants, regardless of status--a position that you once endorsed as county executive. Police will not do ICE’s dirty work. School districts are staunch in their protection of their students.
Perhaps it was the “antisemitism” aspect of this House resolution that particularly appealed to you—you’d like to see ICE abduct and deport more protesters under the totally specious argument that protesting genocide is antisemitic. What would you say to the courageous Israelis who are now standing up and declaring horror over the atrocities committed by the IDF, with the full material support of the US?
At this point in history, the old labels—antisemitism, anti-Zionist, pro-Israel, anti-Israel, etc –are irrelevant. You are either pro-genocide or anti-genocide.
It is unbearable to know that I am represented in Congress by someone who supports both genocide and the brutality of ICE.
Jo Salas