This is how authoritarian regimes operate.

It was a deeply personal—and deeply political—decision rooted in the lived reality that people like me are facing in this moment in America.

We’ve entered a nightmare realm—one where U.S. citizens of color have already been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), stripped of their rights, denied due process, and held without cause.

Abraham Lincoln couldn’t do it without Congress’ approval.

Due process is not about protecting people we like. It exists precisely to protect everyone—especially those on the margins—because the power of the government must have limits.