Chris Truax in The Hill

Charter Member Chris Truax published an opinion piece in The Hill today, analyzing recent immigration enforcement actions and tactics by the Department of Homeland Security.

Truax argues that immigration raids and warrantless detentions, including those conducted at a San Diego restaurant and Rep. Jerry Nadler’s congressional office, raise serious constitutional concerns. He explains that because federal courts have sharply limited the ability to sue federal officers under current law, there is effectively no legal accountability for violations of constitutional rights by immigration agents.

Truax writes:

The Homeland Security officers who invaded Nadler’s office were hunting for protesters, and Homan has already threatened state officials and even members of Congress with arrest for “interfering” with ICE.

When it comes to constitutional rights, no man is an island. The threats, performative cruelty and denials of basic due process are not attacks on immigrants. They are attacks on the rule of law itself.

You should be just as upset and concerned by the Guatemalan snatched off the street and hustled onto a plane with no notice and no due process as you are by the sobbing staffer handcuffed in Nadler’s office. In the eyes of our Constitution, they are all of us.

Read the piece here.