Analilia Mejia: “I’m trying to ensure that our Constitution is upheld,”

I need to say that every single American should be paying attention to what’s happening here — our government is treating a set of people with such impunity, with such inhumanity it is costing them their lives.

I rise because our Nation is at a crossroads. We face a familiar foe: the avarice of the powerful who rig our electoral systems in order to cement their power. This story is as old as our Nation. The powerful weaken the power of the many…

Democracy doesn’t disappear overnight, it erodes piece by piece.

We must continue to fight the abuses being carried out by ICE and DHS and hold the Trump Administration accountable.