Vanessa Cárdenas: “From a Supposed War on Immigrants to a War on America”

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Washington, DC — Ahead of the planned deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago – as a “force multiplier” to support immigration enforcement, according to Trump border czar Tom Homan – President Trump took to Truth Social this weekend to taunt the city, posting an image riffing on “Apocalypse Now” and noting “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR.” As Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) noted regarding President Trump’s post, he “essentially just declared war on a major city in his own nation.”

The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice:

“We have gone from a supposed war on immigrants to a war on Americans.

America’s Voice has long said that immigration was merely the ‘tip of the spear’ for this administration to justify and lead an attack on all of us – including violating due process, constitutional rights and core democratic norms and pillars, such as deploying the military against American communities. Sadly, all are coming to pass.

Why is the American president openly threatening an American city, as he readies the deployment of American troops against those residents? It’s not about immigration, just as the Washington, DC deployment wasn’t about crime. Instead, it’s for purposes of retribution; sowing fear and dissent; provoking violence and dividing us as a nation.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court just sided with the President and his plans to target indiscriminately and racially profile with impunity, effectively making racial profiling now the law of the land.

Whether calling it ‘authoritarianism’ or something else, it’s clear we are fighting not just for immigrants, but also for a different vision of America that’s now imperiled.”