Hi Friends,

Thank you for being a signer of the Pledge of Noncooperation with Mass Deportation. Have you asked everyone you know to sign it too?

The outrages are getting both more extreme and monotonous. We're becoming accustomed to news of . . .

• A preschool teacher being ripped out of a classroom.¹
• A high school student being snatched and imprisoned.²
• Armed, masked assaults on families.³
• A toddler getting pepper sprayed.⁴
• Police confronting an armed, masked thug who turns out to be feds.⁵

Brutal outrages that don't involve children or shocking videos aren't even news anymore. The word "detention" has taken on evil connotations. 

Local and state governments claim to oppose all of this with us. But they are up against the U.S. military. Here's the "U.S. Border Patrol" now guarding the imaginary border in Chicago:

Tell your state to unmask ICE.

Tell Congress to abolish ICE.

 Join in -- and send us reports on -- local nonviolent actions to resist the invasion and occupation.

Don't do it because U.S. troops belong in foreign cities and towns. Do it with increased sympathy for the people of all the foreign cities and towns that U.S. troops have ever occupied — and the victims of the coming wars that Trump says he is using cities and towns to practice for.

This work is only possible with your financial support. Please chip in $12 now.

Thanks for all you do!

In Solidarity,
The RootsAction Team

Footnotes:

1. CNN: "Chicago Day Care Teacher Detained"

2. Fox 5: "Bronx Teen Detained"

3. WSWS: "Violent ICE arrest causes seizure"

4. AP: "Dad with toddler says they were pepper sprayed"

5. Independent: "CA cop tried to stop man pointing gun"

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