NDLON Responds to 100 Days of Trump 2.0

LOS ANGELES, April 29 — Today is the Trump regime’s 100th day.

It’s a cliché of journalism to use Day 100 to compare any new Presidential administration with President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s historic first term in 1933.

Not too many people are alive to remember how FDR became President and moved so quickly and boldly in his first 100 days to pull the country together and lead it out of the Great Depression. FDR’s achievement was historic and profoundly positive. This regime’s, not so much.

The Migration Policy Institute wrote about the 175 immigration actions that the Trump regime has taken in its first 100 days. The regime keeps boasting about its aggression and brutality against immigrants – their hate and xenophobia are out on display everyday.

Two of the most recent actions were executive orders on April 28 attacking sanctuary laws and policies. The orders direct the Department of Justice and the Homeland Security Department to prosecute state and local officials who refuse to help the regime’s assault on immigrant communities.

The following is a statement from NDLON’s Co-Executive Director Pablo Alvarado:

“Yes, we have noticed that 100 days of Trump 2.0 have come and gone. But we do not mark or mourn this artificial milestone. From a historical perspective 100 days are nothing, and our people will survive and outlast the forces of hatred and exclusion. With solidarity, with determination, with music and joy – we resist, and we endure.

“The Trump Administration says it will not stop until all the immigrants it considers undesirables are arrested and removed. They want to erase us. But this will not happen – because we fight together, we win. Sanctuary laws and policies, to prevent local collusion with DHS and ICE, will stop them. The Administration’s legal attacks on sanctuary cities are unlawful and we are confident that they will fail in court. 

“We will fight until we exhaust every legal avenue to defend sanctuary policies, which make our communities safer. They have been established precisely to protect immigrants from reckless raids, to prevent double punishment and to ensure due process for everyone. They make local police more effective, because they can do their job of fighting crime and not have to moonlight as la migra.

“We will defend these policies because they have prevented hundreds of thousands of unjust deportations and family separations. They have been effective, and that’s why this administration hates them.

“Local authorities have to decide which side of the sanctuary divide they stand on. No more hiding – are they with the community or with the authoritarians in power? Are they for public safety or dangerous lawlessness?

“We will fight in the streets and in the court of public opinion, where the sentiment toward immigrants is shifting. The polls indicate that a growing number of Americans reject the Administration’s destructive immigration enforcement practices.

“Ultimately, by standing up for our rights, for the law, for basic decency and for respect, we the people will stop them. Because only the people save the people. Solo el pueblo salva al pueblo.”