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
INDIVIDUALS:
Lily Benavides
Asma Elhuni
Lisa Hassan
Russell Henderson
Sophia Rollo
Carl Scariati
Orum Snow
Peggy Sterling
Bob Witanek
Bennet Zurofsky
