Annie Comes Home: Tell your Senators: End the workplace ICE raids and the military escalations against protesters!

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Tell your Senators: End the workplace ICE raids and the military escalations against protesters!

This is no time for business as usual.

Assault, arrest, detention, and deportation without due process: This is the threat people face from their government under Trump, Pamela:

With thousands of National Guard troops along with 700 active duty Marines illegally deployed to crush protests against immigration raids in the Los Angeles area, more violent intimidation, repression, and threats to free speech are likely.

"Mobilizing Marines against their neighbors is a profoundly dangerous escalation. This deployment is plainly illegal, and it points to the reason why we have laws against these deployments in the first place," Sara Haghdoosti, our executive director told The Intercept. "Not only is it an authoritarian power grab, it also threatens the physical health of people exercising their constitutional rights to protest and to the moral health of Marines now ordered to suppress those rights."[1]

Troops and tanks don't belong on LA's streets or anywhere. However, the possibility that Trump's military flex expands beyond southern California and his DC tank parade is horrifyingly high — and that's why we're reaching out today with an urgent call.

This is no time for business as usual. Senators have a crucial role to play in securing an end to the ICE raids and Trump's violence-first responses. The good news? They're more likely to do it if they hear from you today.

Tell your Senators: End the workplace ICE raids and the military escalations against protesters in our communities!

ACT NOW

When community members trying to protect their neighbors protested Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) raids this weekend, they were met with what The New York Times called "an extraordinary show of force."

"Dozens of federal agents wearing helmets and green camouflage arrived in two hulking armored trucks and other unmarked vehicles, and were soon approached by a crowd of immigrant activists and supporters. Some agents carried riot shields and others held rifles, as well as shotguns that appeared to be loaded with less-than-lethal ammunition."[2]

As people across the country continue to defend their communities, Trump's flex is the exact kind of authoritarian action they are rallying against. Protesters must be allowed to exercise their rights.

That includes David Huerta, a union president with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) — who was one of the many protestors assaulted, injured, and detained while advocating for immigrants this weekend. While Huerta has thankfully been released, entire communities remain at incredible risk.

Now, as communities resisting ICE raids are met with a military-first response, we are joining SEIU and partners across the movement to demand an end to the violence before it escalates further.

Because, Pamela, it could get worse yet — and we've seen Trump sanction violence against protestors before. In June 2020, he used tear gas to clear the area in front of the White House for a photo op. A month later, unidentified federal agents were on Portland's streets, targeting, tear-gassing, beating, kidnapping, and illegally detaining protestors with impunity and without cause.

We refuse to let our communities be militarized or our troops weaponized against the very people they should be protecting. Trump's actions are an assault on the basic constitutional rights of everyone in the United States — and Senators must push back.

Take action now: Tell your Senators to denounce ICE's raids and the military escalation being used against protesters in Los Angeles.

Thank you for working for peace,
The Win Without War team

1. The Intercept, "Trump Deploys Marines to a "Manufactured Crisis," Defense Official Says"
2. The New York Times, "Agents Use Military-Style Force Against Protesters at L.A. Immigration Raid" (gift link)