Background

Delia Catalina Ramirez was born in Chicago, Illinois, on June 2, 1983, and was raised in a subsidized apartment in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago’s West Side. Her mother was an illegal alien from Guatemala who crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. unlawfully while pregnant with Delia. The girl’s father was also an illegal alien.

After earning a B.A. degree in Justice Studies from Northeastern Illinois University, Ramirez worked in leadership roles for a number of social service agencies, nonprofit advocacy groups, and local community organizations. From 2005-2007, for instance, she served as president of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, which was dedicated to “advancing diversity, leader development, and models for engagement as the catalyst for social change.” From 2004-2013, she was executive director of the Center for Changing Lives, a nonprofit that provided Hispanics with free bilingual (English and Spanish) services that included “coaching on financial, employment, and resource mobilization goals.” And from 2016-2019, she was president of the Latin United Community Housing Association, a “community-based development organization” that provided “housing services for the residents of … Latino communities” in Humboldt Park, West Town, and Logan Square.

Ramirez also spent time as the Campaign Manager at Common Cause Illinois, and as Deputy Director of the Community Renewal Society, which aims to break down America’s “race and class barriers” and “decisively transform society toward greater social justice at the intersection of racism and poverty.”

In 2020, Ramirez married Boris Hernandez, an illegal alien who benefited from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that President Barack Obama created in 2012 by means of an executive action designed to protect hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens from deportation.

Launching a Political Career

In 2018, Ramirez, a Democrat, ran for the open 4th District seat in the Illinois House of Representatives. She was part of a slate of Latino candidates supported by then-Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” García, who was running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives at that time. Also among Ramirez’s notable endorsers were U.S. Representative Luis Gutiérrez, Chicago aldermen Carlos Ramirez-Rosa and Roberto Maldonado, the Chicago Teachers Union, the Illinois AFL–CIO, SEIU Healthcare and SEIU Local 73, the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the Illinois Education Association, the LiUNA Chicago Laborers’ District Council, Teamster Joint Council No. 25, the Sierra Club’s Illinois chapter, United Working Families, and Our Revolution Illinois. Ramirez won a four-way Democratic primary election on March 20, 2018, with 48% of the vote, and then ran uncontested in the November general election. Upon taking office, she joined the Illinois House of Representatives’ Progressive Caucus.

In 2022, Ramirez ran in the U.S. House of Representatives election for Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District, a heavily Democratic district which was an open seat as a result of redistricting that had taken place after the 2020 U.S. census. She won the Democratic primary election with 66% of the vote, and then the general election with 68.5% of the vote. Ramirez continues to hold this seat in Congress, where she is also a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Ramirez on the Issues

Following is an overview of Ramirez’s positions on a wide array of key political and social issues.

Abortion

As an Illinois State Representative, Ramirez:

• co-sponsored the Reproductive Health Act of 2019 to “enshrine the right to choose into Illinois state law,” thereby making Illinois “an abortion access haven for the Midwest after the repeal of Roe v. Wade”
• supported legislation to repeal the Parental Notice of Abortion Act, which aimed to deter young people from seeking an abortion by requiring them to involve an adult family member in the decision-making process

In Congress, Ramirez co-sponsored the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Act of 2023, which required federal health care programs to: (a) “provide coverage for abortion services,” and (b) “repea[l] certain provisions of [Obamacare] that permit states to prohibit coverage of abortion services in plans offered through a health insurance exchange in the state.” The EACH Act was “not subject to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, which generally prohibits the federal government from substantially burdening a person’s exercise of religion even if the burden results from a generally applicable law.”

Congresswoman Ramirez also co-sponsored the Reproductive Health Travel Fund Act of 2023, which was intended “to approve grants for patients who must travel to access reproductive health care.”

Criminal Justice

As an Illinois State Representative, Ramirez supported the elimination of the traditional cash bail system which requires a defendant to pay a sum of money in order to be released from jail while he or she awaits trial. The rejection of this practice is based upon the premise that because of racial and socioeconomic inequities, cash bail requirements disproportionately affect poor people and nonwhites, as they are less likely than their white or more affluent counterparts to be able to pay for their pre-trial freedom.

Drugs

As an Illinois State Representative, Ramirez voted to legalize cannabis, “so that we can focus our public safety resources on addressing the root causes of violence and not low-level drug possession.”

Education

In Congress, Ramirez:

• co-sponsored the More Teaching Less Testing Act of 2023 “to reduce the number of standardized tests administered to students in grades 3-12”
• supported the Universal School Meals Program Act of 2023 to provide free breakfast and lunch meals for all students at public primary and secondary schools
• co-sponsored the African American History Act and the Black History Is American History Act, to promote instruction about “the contributions and historical oppression of Black Americans”
• co-sponsored the College for All Act of 2025 “to provide federal funding for free tuition at state colleges and universities, as well as Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) and minority-serving institutions”

Environment & Energy

As an Illinois State Representative, Ramirez co-sponsored a Clean Energy Jobs Act which aimed to have Illinois convert to “100% renewable energy” by 2050.”

In Congress, Ramirez co-sponsored the Environmental Justice For All Act of 2023, a bill that sought to direct “climate change response efforts” in a manner that would especially benefit “​​communities of color, low-income communities, and Tribal and Indigenous communities.”

On her congressional campaign website, Ramirez is described as “a committed and unwavering champion and co-sponsor for the Green New Deal to invest in clean energy jobs and infrastructure, end our reliance on fossil fuels, and fight the effects of climate change in a proactive and equitable manner.”  Calling for the elimination of all fossil fuels from the U.S. electric grid by 2030, the Green New Deal is replete with redistributionist measures that have prompted scholar Tim Huelskamp to describe it as “the most radical socialist proposal in modern congressional history.” “Significant provisions of the Green New Deal reveal its true purpose of imposing socialism on an unprecedented scale,” adds Huelskamp. “The plan would create a ‘basic income program’ and federal jobs guarantee providing a ‘living wage’ to everybody who says they want one. It would impose a federal-government-run, single-payer health care system with bureaucrats and liberal politicians in Washington, D.C. in charge of every American’s health care…. None of these proposals has anything at all to do with climate change.”

Gun Rights

In Congress, Ramirez co-sponsored the Assault Weapons Ban of 2023, which “makes it a crime to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD).”

Health Care

As a State Representative, Ramirez supported legislation that was “championed and passed by the Illinois Black Caucus to address racial disparities in the IL healthcare system.”

In Congress, Ramirez has co-sponsored the Medicare for All Act “to guarantee that everyone has access to life-saving healthcare under a single-payer model.” She favors the creation of a single-payer, government-run, national health insurance program to provide universal comprehensive health care coverage, free at the point of service.

Immigration

As an Illinois State Representative, Ramirez:

• co-sponsored legislation to prevent Illinois police “from acting as Trump’s deportation force,” thereby making Illinois “one of the most immigrant-friendly states in the nation”
• co-sponsored legislation designed “to shut down for-profit immigrant detention centers in Illinois”
• supported budgetary investments that “increased immigrant services line items”

Ramirez’s congressional website says that “she unwaveringly advocates for a pathway to citizenship for the more than 11 million undocumented people in the U.S.”

In Congress, Ramirez serves as co-lead on the American Dream and Promise Act (ADPA), which aims to create a pathway-to-citizenship for beneficiaries of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Specifically, the ADPA stipulates that:

• “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or the Department of Justice (DOJ) shall provide conditional permanent resident status for 10 years to a qualifying individual who entered the United States as a minor and (1) is deportable or inadmissible, (2) has deferred enforced departure (DED) status or temporary protected status (TPS), or (3) is the child of certain classes of nonimmigrants.”
• “DHS shall remove the conditions placed on permanent resident status granted under this bill if the alien applies and meets certain requirements, such as completing certain programs at an educational institution, serving in the military, or being employed.”
• “DHS may not use information from applications filed under this bill or for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status for immigration enforcement purposes.”
• “This bill also repeals a restriction that bars a state from providing higher education benefits to undocumented individuals unless those benefits are available to all U.S. nationals without regard to residency in the state.”

In 2023, Ramirez co-sponsored the LIFT the BAR Act, which sought to “repea[l] certain limits on the eligibility of noncitizens who lawfully reside in the United States for federal means-tested programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), programs funded through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) grants, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and certain nutrition and housing programs.”

Ramirez delivered the keynote address at an August 2025 Netroots Nation event in New Orleans, Louisiana. During her speech, she defiantly directed the following remarks to Trump administration Border Czar Tom Homan: “Well, Tom Homan, let me tell you: All over the country, we will continue to stand up for our rights, and we will continue to call out the terrorist organization that is ICE.”

Israel & Palestine

On April 13, 2023, Ramirez was among the 14 Democrat representatives who signed a letter urging President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to place conditions on U.S. aid to Israel. “We call on your administration to ensure that all future foreign assistance to Israel, including weapons and equipment, is not used in support of gross violations of human rights,” wrote the lawmakers. The other 13 signatories were Bernie Sanders, Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Summer Lee, Andre Carson, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Betty McCollum, Raul Grijalva, Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Jesus “Chuy” Garcia.

On July 18, 2023, Ramirez was one of nine Democrats who voted against a Republican House Resolution – which passed by a margin of 412-9 – affirming that “Israel is not a racist or apartheid state,” and that “the United States will always be a staunch partner and supporter of Israel.” The other eight representatives who opposed it were Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, Andre Carson, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

At daybreak on October 7, 2023, the Islamic terror group Hamas carried out a massive, multi-front, surprise attack against Israel, firing thousands of rockets from Gaza into the Jewish state, while dozens of Hamas fighters simultaneously infiltrated the Israeli border in a number of locations by air, land and sea. The attack, which killed more than 1,200 people and injured at least 4,500 others, prompted the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to launch an invasion of the Gaza Strip with the explicit aim of destroying Hamas and its leadership once and for all. Soon thereafter, Ramirez was among the 13 Democrats who supported the launch of a “Ceasefire Now Resolution,” which exhorted the Biden administration “to call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Israel and occupied Palestine, to send humanitarian aid and assistance to Gaza, and to save as many lives as possible” — rather than to encourage Israel to obliterate Hamas with finality.

On October 16, 2023 – while Israel was engaged in its military campaign in Gaza — Ramirez suggested that the Jewish state was guilty of subjecting the Palestinians to “dehumanization, scapegoating, and collective punishment.”

Nine days later, Ramirez said: “We cannot unequivocally support or condone the Israeli government’s collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza. The Palestinian people are not Hamas. We must use our collective voice and influence to end the siege that has claimed the lives of more than 2,000 Palestinian children, displaced thousands of Palestinians, and limited the humanitarian aid that can reach the region. Violence cannot bring peace, and atrocities cannot justify further war crimes.” Notwithstanding the distinction that Ramirez took pains to draw between Palestinian civilians and Hamas terrorists, Hamas was – and remains to this day – extremely popular among those civilians.

Also on October 25, 2023, Ramirez opposed H.R. 771, a House Resolution titled “Standing with Israel as It Defends Itself against the Barbaric War Launched by Hamas and Other Terrorists.” The Resolution stated, among other things, that the House of Representatives “reaffirms Israel’s right to self-defense”; “calls on all countries to unequivocally condemn Hamas’ brutal war against Israel”; “reaffirms the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security”; “condemns Iran’s support for terrorist groups and proxies, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad”; and “urges full enforcement of United States sanctions against Iran to prevent Iran’s funding of terrorist groups.” House members supported the measure by a margin of 412-10, with 9 of the 10 “No” votes being cast by Ramirez and fellow Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, Cori Bush, André Carson, and Al Green. Six other Democrats voted “Present” on the Resolution: Greg Casar, Ayanna Pressley, Joaquin Castro, Nydia Velázquez, Jesús “Chuy” Garcia, and Pramila Jayapal.[1]

In an October 30, 2023 interview with host Amy Goodman of the leftwing news-talk program Democracy Now!, Ramirez, calling for “de-escalation and ceasefire” as a way of ensuring “the safety of innocent civilians” in Gaza, said: “The reality is that if we care about Israelis, if we care about the Jewish community and their safety, we have to understand that it’s interconnected with the safety and the freedom of Palestinians.” “Bombs are going to kill people,” she added. “And in this case, it is killing thousands of [Palestinian] civilians. We’ve seen it already in the last three weeks. We have to do everything we can to ensure that we’re honoring international law, that the money we’re sending [to Israel] isn’t killing [Palestinian] children …”

On November 2, 2023, a mere 23 congressional legislators – all Democrats — voted against House Resolution 798, titled “Condemning the support of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations at institutions of higher education, which may lead to the creation of a hostile environment for Jewish students, faculty, and staff.” Among those 23 dissenters were Ramirez, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, Cori Bush, Greg Casar, and Ayanna Pressley.

On November 15, 2023 — a day after she had viewed footage of Hamas’ murderous October 7th terror attacks against Israel — Ramirez was part of a group of two-dozen House Democrats who together sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to call immediately for a “bilateral ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas. “We are profoundly shocked by the grave violations of children’s rights in the context of armed conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the letter said, citing such transgressions as “killing and maiming, attacks on schools and hospitals, recruitment and use of children, abduction of children, and denial of humanitarian access.” (Also among the letter’s 24 signatories were Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, Cori Bush, and Ayanna Pressley.)

On January 27, 2024, Ramirez praised the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations’ highest court, for instructing Israel to: (a) prevent, to the best of its ability, mass death and calamity in Gaza, and (b) ensure that humanitarian aid reached its intended beneficiaries in Gaza. “While the [ICJ] ruling calls [on] Israel to do all in its power to limit and prevent death, destruction, and any acts of genocide in Gaza,” said Ramirez in a statement, “the U.S. must also confront our complicity in the International Court of Justice’s determination. Yesterday’s ruling affirms we must continue challenging our nation’s unconditional support for the Netanyahu administration. Ceasefire NOW.”

In January 2024 as well, two House Democrats — Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush — voted against a bill to deny refuge in the United States to noncitizens involved with aiding Hamas in carrying out the deadly attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Ramirez, for her part, voted “Present.” “There are ALREADY no immigration benefits for Hamas terrorists,” she explained, adding later: “I could not stomach another bill only introduced to score cheap political points, politicize immigration, and divide our communities. Like the Republican’s sham impeachment, this bill does not meaningfully address border security nor further protect our communities. H.R.6679 is unnecessary. It’s a waste of resources and time. And I’m not playing along.”

On February 6, 2024, Ramirez voted against R. 7217, whose purpose was to provide $17.6 billion in unconditioned U.S. funding for the Israeli military. Other Democrats who voted in favor of the bill included Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, Cori Bush, Greg Casar, and Ayanna Pressley.

In April 2024, Ramirez voted against a $95 billion international aid package that earmarked 26.38 billion American dollars for Israel. The measure passed in the U.S. House by a margin of 366 to 58, with 21 Republicans and 37 Democrats voting “NO.” “When it comes to unconditional aid to the extremist, warmonger Netanyahu,” Ramirez said in a statement, “the truth is that one more dollar to him would serve to bomb children, divide us further and dismantle any chance at long-lasting peace.”

On April 18, 2024, the House of Representatives voted, by a margin of 404-to-14, in favor of a resolution to condemn a recent attack in which Iran had launched more than 300 missiles and drones toward the state of Israel – most of which Israeli and allied forces had been able to shoot down with their highly sophisticated defensive systems. The 14 congresspeople who voted against the resolution were Ramirez, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Summer Lee, Cori Bush, Greg Casar, Ayanna Pressley, Jonathan Jackson, Pramila Jayapal, Hank Johnson, Barbara Lee, and Thomas Massie (the lone Republican).

On May 8, 2024, Ramirez went to the floor of the U.S. House and bitterly condemned Israel’s ongoing operations in Gaza. Citing fraudulent, highly inflated casualty statistics furnished by the Hamas Ministry of Health, she said, in part:

“I rise today to affirm that we’re paying attention. We were paying attention when 35,000 Palestinians were killed. We were paying attention when over 14,500 children were robbed of their future, 404 doctors and aid workers were killed, 100 journalists and media workers were killed. And we are paying attention as over 1.1 million people [are] on the verge of starving to death. Yesterday we were paying attention when Israel began its invasion into [the southern Gaza city of] Rafah….  We were paying attention last month when a nonpartisan task force issued an independent credible report outlining the Israeli government’s violations of international humanitarian law. In 76 pages of details, they provide example after example of what they call a systematic disregard for international humanitarian law and military best practice regarding civilian harm mitigation by the Israel Defense Forces, including with U.S.-provided arms….

“We know that Netanyahu’s administration has been [sic] and is continuing to assure the U.S. government that it is using U.S. weapons in line with international laws and it’s not interfering with the delivery of humanitarian aid. But given what we have witnessed over the last 214 days [since October 7, 2023], how can we trust Netanyahu’s official assurances that they are complying with international law? How can we be expected to ignore the violations of international law and interference with the delivery of humanitarian assistance we have witnessed in real time? What are we to say to the constituents whose families are starving? Whose loved ones cannot receive medical care? Or who never received the promised evacuation from Gaza. What do we say to the brave and courageous students across campuses, our children, who are defending other children in Gaza who are being murdered with U.S. bombs? What do we say to the children who are still looking for their mothers under the rubble as we approach Mother’s Day? The administration’s willingness to make exceptions for Israel has got to stop. The actions of the Netanyahu government are exceptional, exceptionally noncompliant with international law and exceptionally unconcerned with human rights.”

In July 2024, Ramirez was one of more than 50 Democratic lawmakers who announced that, as a gesture of protest against Israel’s war against Hamas, they would boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s July 24th address to a joint session of Congress.

Iran

On June 21-22, 2025, the Trump administration carried out “Operation Midnight Hammer,” a series of precision airstrikes targeting three major Iranian nuclear weaponry sites—Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan. The attacks utilized more than 125 U.S. aircraft, including seven B‑2 bombers carrying 14 Bunker-Buster bombs (GBU‑57/MOP), as well as Tomahawk missiles and precision-guided munitions. After the strikes had been completed, President Trump issued a statement wherein he said: “Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated. Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not. Future attacks would be far greater and a lot easier.”

Denouncing both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “warmongers,” Ramirez reacted to the airstrikes by saying: “It is the people who suffer the illegal & irresponsible actions of authoritarian leaders. Only Congress has the power to declare war. We must act to protect our safety and shared humanity.”

Minimum Wage

As an Illinois State Representative, Ramirez co-sponsored legislation to raise minimum wage in Illinois to $15 per hour.

In Congress, she has co-sponsored the Raise the Wage Act aiming to increase the federal minimum wage to $17 per hour.

Social Safety Net

As an Illinois State Representative, Ramirez:

• wrote and passed an expansion to Medicaid in Illinois, to extend coverage to illegal-alien senior citizens
• supported and helped pass legislation to “make Universal Basic Income pilot programs in Illinois possible without interrupting public aid benefits”

In Congress, Ramirez has:

• opposed efforts to cut benefits or add work requirements for SNAP, TANF, Medicare, Medicaid, and other social programs
• co-sponsored the SUPPORT For SNAP Act of 2023 to “improve nutrition assistance for people experiencing homelessness”
• co-sponsored the Child Care for Every Community Act of 2023, which “provides funds to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for an affordable child care and early learning program” that is open to “children who are not yet required to attend school … regardless of family income, disability status, citizenship status, or employment of a family member”

Voting Rights

As an Illinois State Representative, Ramirez:

• co-sponsored “small donor match” to promote publicly funded elections
• supported an elections reform bill to expand mail-in voting statewide

In Congress, Ramirez has:

• co-sponsored the Democracy Restoration Act of 2023 to “guarantee that the people released from incarceration have the right to vote”
• co-sponsored the Same Day Registration Act of 2023 to mandate that states allow voters to register at their respective polling places on Election Day, and to then cast their ballots immediately thereafter
• co-sponsored House Joint Resolution 54, proposing a constitutional amendment to essentially overturn the Citizens United Supreme Court decision of 2010, which held that: “under the First Amendment, corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited.”

Smearing the U.S. at Socialist Conference in Mexico City

In early August 2025, Ramirez spoke at the second annual Panamerican Congress of the Progressive International in Mexico City – an event attended by leftist officials from all over North and South America. Among the Americans present were Democrats Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Summer Lee, and Jesús Gilberto García – all members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. During remarks she delivered at the opening of the conference, Ramirez condemned the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal aliens; she accused the U.S. of prioritizing “imperialism, militarization, conquest, control, [and] competition in its attempt at domination.” She also declared in Spanish: “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.”

Notably, the Progressive International aspires to help create a “post-capitalist” world that “rewards all forms of labour while abolishing the cult of work.”

Telling “What It Means to Be an American”

At an August 2025 Netroots Nation event in New Orleans, Louisiana, an interviewer asked Ramirez: “What does it mean to you to be an American?” The congresswoman answered:

“For me, being an American is the ability to dream, to love, to have dissent, to be able to organize and build a kind of solidarity that recognizes the good and the bad of the formation of this country; that is willing to reckon with how we have used colonialism to harm others, especially in the western hemisphere; and begin to think about and imagine creatively what reparations look like, what building solidarity looks like, what bringing all of us together means. To be an American for me is the ability to love and also push back; the ability to be able to fight back and also build community. And to me this precise moment is a time for us to ask ourselves, who are we as Americans? And let’s be frank, we haven’t always been great, and let’s be frank, our history says a lot about what we’ve done and who we’ve done. This country has never been great for poor people, for black people, for indigenous people. And so for me, to be American is to live into what we should be, not what we have been.”

Portraying Trump as a “Wannabe Dictator”

During a press conference in early September 2025, Ramirez denounced President Trump’s recent decision to deploy National Guard troops to help fight crime in Washington D.C.; she also condemned the President’s pledge that he would soon be sending additional Guardsmen into other crime-infested American cities.

Portraying Trump as a “wannabe dictator,” Ramirez said: “It’s about control. It’s about threatening diverse, successful, democratic-led cities like Chicago that refuse to bow down to authoritarianism.”

Claiming that “immigrant neighbors” across the United States were “disappearing” as a result of ICE ‘s enforcement of immigration law, the congresswoman added: “When Trump talks about ‘restoring order’ with National Guard troops, I want to make sure that we understand what it is. It’s a violent suppression of dissent. It’s an expensive, unlawful political stunt … it’s a lie to justify violating our rights and disappearing immigrant neighbors.”

“We don’t need the National Guard in Chicago, Baltimore, or New York City,” Ramirez continued. “… When armed troops are sent into U.S. cities to suppress protests, to target civil society leaders, or to facilitate the disappearance of our neighbors, it is not just a local issue, it strikes at the core of our very own democracy.” She also exhorted Americans to “obstruct and do everything we can to oppose any of these authoritarian actions when it’s against our cities.”

Footnotes:

1. The lone Republican who voted “No” to the resolution was Thomas Massie (Kentucky), who explicitly condemned the attack by Hamas and affirmed Israel’s right to self-defense but opposed the resolution because he feared that it might cause the Mideast conflict to deepen further.