Nov 12 2025, FBI Complex Lily Benavides Testifies on NSPM7 Harms: “We are more in more danger . . . anybody of color and anybody with an accent”
As an immigrant and a native from South America . . . not that I experienced that myself, but I’ve seen and known people that have been in difficult times that have been displaced, that have been kidnapped and killed for using their lands or resources for other groups. This touches us in a certain way because we are more in more danger . . . anybody of color and anybody with an accent or if we just think differently. We have another ideology and why would we have to impose something on people like religion you know? This is a country with more than 300 million people and everyone comes from a different background, different thinking and we can just accept that.
I can’t tell the person next to me that you have to go this way or do this. No I mean this is supposed to be the country of freedom and look look where we are now . . .Lily Benavides, Green Party of NJ
Pretty much a lot of the things that I was going to say were said already, but let’s see. I bring a different perspective somehow as an immigrant. This is very dangerous and we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t that serious under this weather, right? Freezing here and nobody’s paying us for this.
As an immigrant and a native from South America . . . not that I experienced that myself, but I’ve seen and known people that have been in difficult times that have been displaced, that have been kidnapped and killed for using their lands or resources for other groups. This touches us in a certain way because we are more in more danger . . . anybody of color and anybody with an accent or if we just think differently. We have another ideology and why would we have to impose something on people like religion you know? This is a country with more than 300 million people and everyone comes from a different background, different thinking and we can just accept that.
I can’t tell the person next to me that you have to go this way or do this. No I mean this is supposed to be the country of freedom and look look where we are now and um I know that people don’t like to talk about politics but we wouldn’t be here if the two parties would have done something along the way to protect us to protect everybody there’s so many examples about much uh like uh the gender uh issue, how it’s going to affect how it’s already affected people. They didn’t really do much about it. They it’s not it’s not a codified law that they could be protected, you know, they would take it away from them. Uh the same with the abortion, the same with ICE.
Uh we they’ve been promising people an immigration reform for decades. Uh and they do that every election. Every election. The two parties, the Democrats and Republicans, they do that every election. And look where we are right now. um those uh ICE folks come and kidnap people, innocent people and and not just anyone that is undocumented or a criminal or illegal as they say. They can take any of us. They come and take me as a citizen, as a n naturalized citizen. They won’t ask me if I’m a citizen. They wouldn’t even ask me that.
And they are doing that all over. And some people might think that this is not happening in New Jersey, but that’s not true. It is happening a lot. We just don’t see it right here in front of us, but it is happening and and and all over the country and uh it’s going to affect all of us. That’s not going to affect only the ones that are getting caught.
No, all of us. The economy is going down. Everything is going down. And we’re going to go down with them. all of us uh and uh going through the list that um that that basically cause us to be here,
right? So again, uh anyone of color, anyone with an accent, any anyone that thinks different,
I mean, I don’t know. Only if you are Christian and say that you love Trump, maybe you won’t be here, right?
also all the billions that have been spent in wars in conflicts and uh killing innocent people and
in Palestine and Gaza and obviously in other places as well, right? uh with our money, money that we don’t have here uh for housing, for health care, uh health care premiums for people that are city employees, and I know this for a fact is going to take a big hike on January 1st.
i’m putting my family as an example. My husband pay check is going to go to the insurance and we are already low income. What are we doing? This is happening in front of our eyes and none of the parties are doing anything about it. They’re mute. They don’t care about us.
They just care about the money that they can put in their pockets. AIPAC money. And they care about protecting criminals, baby killers.They just had one here last night. He’s probably here having lunch or dinner with someone of these politicians in Trenton. Yoav Gallant monster. He was here last night.
It is same when Netanyahu shows up, it’s like the king is here. You know, they have control of everyone here.
So, you know, we’re a small number here, but we should have like a hundred people here because people think that we are so dramatic and that this is not serious, But it is. It is awful and it’s going to get even worse. It doesn’t matter if we got Mikey Cheryl on board.
She hasn’t done anything. She has given millions, not millions, billions to Israel and to Ukraine. And even if we don’t agree on these issues, that money should not have left the United States because we need that here for our own people.
What about uh the ITA? They won’t pass the ITA. They are not going to pass the ITA. They don’t want to pass it. They’re not going to pass it. And she said in one of those interviews that she would let the Federals do their job. She never explained what that meant.She was asked again and she was mute about it. So,, what can we hope for? I don’t know. I just know it will get,really bad.
And I’m here. I’m here and they are probably watching us and taking pictures of us and filming and all that. And they can come to my house, you know. They can come and just kick the door and take us, right?
Yeah, thank you.
So, uh, so yeah, we we I hope that those watching this really start considering being part of this because this is not going to stop. Just by miracle. Okay. Thank you, Bob.
The full testimony from the November 12 “Public Hearing in the Streets Demanding NJ Protection from Repressive Harms of NSPM7” :
