Sign Petition: Governor Murphy, AG Platkin, NJ Legislature: No Deployment of National Guard on NJ Soil in Support of ICE / DHS Illegal Repression
Communities have been organizing and mobilizing to defend themselves in response to the current Trump administration’s assault on our immigrant communities. That assault, in defiance of the ordinary requirements of Due Process, uses heavily armed and masked forces of ICE, the FBI, CBP, and other federal police, , along with some local, county and state police, to detain people, make mass arrests, disappear people, and deport people in what are essentially kidnappings purportedly justified by often false accusations of immigration or criminal violations.
The Trump administration is now escalating this illegal repression by deploying the National Guard against civilians who are attempting to protect workers, families, children and others in their communities from its totalitarian tactics. Already National Guard has been deployed to California with Trump’s illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act of 1807.
We call upon NJ Governor Phil Murphy, the NJ legislature and the full legal resources of the State of NJ to oppose any request to engage NJ’s National Guard forces to assist in the administration’s fascistic immigration round up and its corresponding assault on our communities. .
We further call upon Governor Murphy, the NJ Legislature, and the full legal resources of the State of New Jersey to oppose the deployment of the National Guard of any other state to NJ.
We further call for an immediate announcement by Gov. Murphy of New Jersey’s complete opposition to any NJ participation in providing National Guard troops or any other assistance to the Trump Administration’s repressive crackdown on our immigrant communities and those who support them.
We further call upon NJ to use the full resources of the Office of Attorney General to oppose any attempt to declare community opposition to the federal immigration crackdown an “insurrection” in order to sidestep NJ sovereignty over the decision of whether to deploy its own National Guard forces or allow federalized National Guard forces from other States into NJ.
We further call upon all persons living or working in NJ to join in total opposition to the unconstitutional federal immigration crackdown, and the violence of ICE and any other federal or local police forces in support of that crackdown.
We the People have a right to oppose unconstitutional and violent assaults on our communities and to be steadfast in opposition to any attempt by the Administration to escalate to a full scale war its attacks on its own people. We therefore join in opposition to any National Guard deployment to NJ in support of the Trump Administration’s immigration crackdown.
TO SIGN:
ORGANIZATIONS:
FightBackBetter Editorial Staff
Green Party of New Jersey
INDIVIDUALS:
Lois Bass
Lily Benavides
Rosemarie Brenner
Robin Brownfield
Thomas Cannavo
Michelle Carter
Sheila Caver
Bonnie Chalek
Yannice Crawford
Hanife Demiral
Susan DeSantis
Mahmoud Desouky
Kirsten Diebold
Kate Dodd
Barb Dunnick
Asma Elhuni
Marguerite Elia
Kelli Emano
Anthony Faber
Vincent Fedor
Wendy Goetz
Ian Hartman
Lisa Hassan
Russell Henderson
Madelyn Hoffman
Scott Hricsina
John Hsu
Elizabeth Jahn
Chase Johannsen
Renee Johnston
Ali Kaddour
Mirvat Kaddour
Catherine Loye
Tom Lynch
Alison McGeary
Aiman Muheisen
Fred Nguyen
Lilliana Noonan
Jazmin Ortiz
Tim P
Robert Pepper
Anam Raja
Sophia Rollo
Patricia Ricker
Analis Rivera
Cindy Ruggiero
Lisa Ryan
Renu Sagreiya
Neil Sauerwein
Carl Scariati
Ellen Schroeder
Jackie Slivko
Orum Snow
Peggy Sterling
Charlene Sterphone
Heather Stott-Mason
Rebecca Sullivan
Valerie Taylor
Anthony Tedesco
Mary Tennison
Randy Thompson
Denise Williams
Bob Witanek
Bennet Zurofsky
