Summer Lee: “If you step on the soil of the United States, they should be respected for those rights.”

Daphy’s death was preventable and is the result of a violent system that cages people, surveils them, abandons them, dehumanizes them in life, and smears them in death to escape accountability.

Rather than pour billions more into the agency that murdered her, we must abolish ICE and build systems rooted in equity and basic human dignity.

It is unacceptable that such a vital part of our country function has become so unreliable and controversial.

This is how dictators take power. They manufacture crises, undermine our institutions, and erode our checks and balances.