As a Christian, it is a cornerstone of my faith that I work to protect the vulnerable. We are commanded in many places in the Bible to protect the widow, the orphan, and the foreigner. Deuteronomy 24:17 reads:
“You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice…”
And Leviticus 19:33 reads:
“When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the native-born among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.”
We must Abolish ICE #
I am calling for the criminal prosection of Jonathan Ross, Jesus Ochoa, Raymundo Gutierrez, Gregory Bovino, Tom Homan, Kristi Neom, and Donald Trump for Murder in the First Degree, and Crimes Against Humanity. #
We must abolish ICE and prosecute it’s leadership for inflicting cruelty on our neighbors. It is one thing to demand the enforcement of the law, but it is another thing entirely to use militarized law enforcement to systematically oppress and brutalize any group of people – let alone a group we are commanded by God to protect.
ICE agents have murdered multiple American citizens in cold blood. They have attempted to murder others, which have survived. At the time of writing this post 37 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office for his second term. Good, innocent people are dying, repeatedly at the hands of a cruel regime engaged in systemic human rights abuses. The people responsible for these crimes against humanity and this tyrrany must be brought to justice.
Every single act which ICE has participated in, must be investigated. The organization must be dismantled and its participants and its leaders tried, convicted, and imprisioned for their crimes against our communities. I will not rest until I have justice for Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Marimar Martinez, Liam Ramos, and the thousands of other innocent lives destroyed by this evil institution.
Expand Pathways to Citizenship #
We must pass a constitutional ammendment which makes it clear that non-citizens and citizens are both covered under the same bill of rights, regardless of citizenship. Then, we need to create a sensible and fair pathway to citizenship for everyone. No more waiting decades. We must build a fast, secure, and easy pathway for the best humanity has to offer.
No one, who comes to this country in good faith, to build a better life for themselves, their families and their communities should be denied a pathway to citizenship to the US, regardless of their supposed current “economic value”. We are a nation of immigrants. We are all occupying stolen land.
Who are we to come in, conquor the space, declare it our own and build a fence preventing others from access to the garden? Surely if we want to grow our garden, our culture, our peoples, our achievements and accomplishments we should be selecting not for the richest among us, but those of us who are the most hungry for progress and success.
We are all due the right to a rich life, regardless of where we come from, and in my opinion if you come here to work in my community to build with me, to live with me, to break bread with me, then brother come; then sister come; then aunties and uncles come; I love you, I accept you and I want you here. Let us celebrate life together.
Reform Qualified Immunity #
We must end qualified immunity for all law enforcement and government employees nationwide. The social contract of this legal doctrine required the trust from the public that the government would use their monopoly on violence in the best interests of justice and public safety. Instead the government has participated in repeated, targeted, cruelty, tyrrany, and opression against the most vulnerable populations in our society. The government has lost the public’s trust in their responsible and ethical use of force, and thus has forfeited their right to legal immunity.
“Qualified Immunity” is used as a blanket excuse to protect abusers who repeatedly break protocol, the law, and endanger their fellow officers and colleagues on an ongoing basis. I will work to end qualified immunity and replace it with “reasonable immunity” in which a series of tests are evaluated to determine if immunity should be granted – with which the principal test is if a reasonable person would have acted in the same manner given the same training, and conditions.
Thus, in any case where the actions of someone are deemed to be unreasonable under these tests, immunity will NOT be grants to the government offical. We will target all government employees with this law.
I will codify civil and criminal penalties for law enforcement officers and government officials who repeatedly and willfully violate the civil rights of others. I will work to establish a publicly available, searchable and indexable Nationwide Law Enforcement Database. This database will contain the names, ages, departments, training, certifications, records of heroism, and records of misconduct, as well as every public complaint filed against the officer alleging misconduct, details about the resulting investigation and its resolution.
We will expose the officer’s entire career history – both good and bad. This database will be used to celebrate, decorate, and highlight our heroes in law enforcement while also working to root out the abusers who threaten the public safety, exploit the public’s trust, and endanger their fellow officers through their actions.