we must fight back

This week, T***p signed a memo to expand migrant detention at Guantánamo Bay—let’s call it what it is: concentration camps.

Here’s the definition: A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities. Guantánamo Bay has never held more than 780 detainees at once—Trump wants to cram 30,000 human beings into it. Thirty. Thousand.

This isn’t about security. This isn’t about fixing the country. This is about terrorizing Black and Brown people while ignoring the real crises—the crushing cost of living, corporate greed, and the billionaire class Trump worships. ICE is already ripping families apart and even detaining U.S. citizens just for speaking Spanish. 

Now, Trump is escalating by ordering unconstitutional forced removal via raids at schools, churches, hospitals, and restaurants, inciting panic and chaos among immigrant communities. He is also threatening to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798—the same law used to justify Japanese internment during WWII. And this is just the start. 

As pissed off as I am, I know one thing remains true: we take care of us. We show up for each other. We protect our neighbors. And we will continue to build stronger communities no matter how hard they try to break us. This country has a long history of oppression—but an even longer history of resistance, from Indigenous people fighting for their land to abolitionists to the civil rights movement to every person who has ever said no more.

We cannot let this happen. We must fight back. No to concentration camps. No to fascism. No to history repeating itself.

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In Community & Solidarity,
Anastasia Martinez
Direct of Campaigns & Policy