Dear Sen. Brennan,
When you ran for state senate, you sidestepped questions regarding your stance on then-candidate Trump, stating, “I’m running for Vermont.”
Recent developments are casting a dark shadow over our Colchester community in Vermont, as legal residents face threats of detention. The actions of the current president and party leadership have become a stark reality, with a Columbia University student recently detained by federal agents in Vermont.
As a representative elected by Vermonters, we urgently look to you for answers and decisive action now that you are one of our state senators:
- What concrete steps are you taking to defend the rights of all legal residents of Vermont in the face of these terrifying encroachments?
- How are you ensuring our safety and safeguarding our fundamental rights to due process and habeas corpus?
- Most critically, echoing the concerns of FDR, what measures are you implementing to guarantee that we as Vermonters can live without the fear that any of us might be arbitrarily seized and deported to a foreign gulag?
The time for action is now and we need to know you are fighting for the safety and rights of every Vermont resident.
As Robert Reich asks in a post: “If Trump can disappear visa holders, asylum seekers, and legal permanent residents without due process, what’s to stop him from doing the same to U.S. citizens who oppose him? Either everyone has due process — or no one does.”
Matthew Hall
Colchester
