“Facts still matter in this country.”
“This is a constitutional crisis.”
“My constituents (have) growing fears about Fascism.”
“If this can happen to Kilmar Garcia, it can happen to anyone here in the United States.”
“You know, if as members of Congress of the United States during a moment, when the President of this country is defying an Supreme Court order, when he is putting us into a full-fledged constitutional crisis, we don’t stand up and do something. I literally don’t know what we are doing in Congress.”
Hours after Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen flew into El Salvador and was denied access to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Arizona Congressional District (CD) Three Representative Yassamin Ansari announced on an interview with BBC News that she, and other House Democrats are planning to visit that nation to hopefully get a better outcome than Mr. Van Hollen.
In excerpts released by the Representative and her team, Ms. Ansari stated:
“I still believe that facts matter in this country despite the fact that our president lies over and over again. The truth is that Mr. Garcia was here legally in this country was granted temporary protected status, has a U.S citizen wife and kids and he did not get due process and again, the administration admitted that they mistakenly sent him there. So to me, this is a constitutional crisis. I am hearing from thousands of my constituents about their growing fears around fascism. I am the daughter of immigrants myself, who fled an authoritarian regime. I represent a district where more than 64 languages are spoken, a majority Latino district. And my constituents are deeply concerned about the lack of due process. About the fact that they could be next. And this is causing mass fear and mass chaos in a district like mine. The truth is, if this can happen to Kilmar Garcia, it can happen to anyone here in the United States.”
Today, Representative Ansari expanded on her thoughts in an interview with CNN, saying:
“You know, if as members of Congress of the United States during a moment, when the President of this country is defying an Supreme Court order, when he is putting us into a full-fledged constitutional crisis, we don’t stand up and do something. I literally don’t know what we are doing in Congress.”
Representative Ansari further stated:
“The fact that this Administration sent somebody illegally to a foreign country to be imprisoned, there, admitted they made a mistake, had a Supreme Court ruling against them and still denying and lying to the American people about the facts on the ground. That is so concerning to me. This country has always prided itself on due process. And the point here is the fact that we have an Administration that is choosing to be authoritarian, to defy the courts to defy the law and Is what should be concerning to every single American in this country.”
Details of the Representatives trip have not been finalized but her communications director, Kaitlin Hooker said that “She is going next week for sure.”
Representative Ansari is right when she says we are in a constitutional crisis that should be concerning to every American and that if it could happen to someone or individuals (most of the people in El Salvador had no criminal records) who is in this country legally, it can happen to anyone including you and me.
People need to continue to make their views known to their elected officials and petition them and the courts stop Musk/Trump/Vance Central Committee Fascist bulldozer descent into White Nationalist madness and subversion of people’s due process and civil rights. before the plot of Sinclair Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here becomes non fiction.
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