Trump just announced that he will be sending the National Guard to Memphis next, continuing the attack on Black America that started with deployments to the streets of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. — And the threat remains of further federal takeovers of other Black-led cities like Chicago and New Orleans.
We’ve seen ICE conduct immigration raids across the country that indiscriminately target people by the color of their skin — after Trump’s disastrous budget bill allocated $75 billion in additional funding to the agency, making it the nation’s highest-funded law enforcement agency and largest domestic police force. One that seeks to establish a permanent surveillance state and answers only to him.
Trump won’t stop with Black-led cities or immigrants. These attacks against our communities are not isolated campaigns of terror. This is a dress rehearsal for authoritarian overreach — a deliberate test of the public’s limits to dictatorial dominance that he seeks to expand to every Democratic-led city and every marginalized group.
The increasing militarization of police and escalations of hyper-surveillance, detention and racial profiling endanger us all. We must stand together to show this administration that the American people will oppose him at every step.
