Rashida Tlaib: “Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman, for doing this hearing and for your leadership on this issue.”

Our families do not deserve to be subjected to such hate and bigotry.

This data sharing should terrify all of us. It does nothing to make us safer, but rather endangers the basic rights of all Americans and worsens our mass surveillance crisis.

Their silence is complacent and normalizes fearmongering and racism. We know that targeting any community doesn’t allow any of us to be safe.

More leaders, including local elected officials, must speak out, especially against the local instigators participating in the spread of hatred under the guise of faith.