Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) told Trump to get his DHS lackeys and paramilitary operations out of his state of Oregon.
Merkley tweeted at Trump:
.@realDonaldTrump: Get your DHS lackey and uninvited paramilitary actions out of my state. Our communities are not a stage for your twisted reelection campaign.
— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) July 17, 2020
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The Senator from Oregon was not finished:
🚨 Second, these agents are snatching people off the street with no underlying justification. Both of these acts are profound offenses against Americans. We demand not only that these acts end, but also that they remove their forces immediately from our state.
— Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) July 17, 2020
Merkley, Sen. Ron Wyden, and US Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici all came together to call for IG investigations into the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security.
The US Attorney for Oregon has also called for an investigation as the due process rights of at least two protesters were violated when they pulled off the streets by unmarked Customs and Border Patrol agents and placed into unmarked vehicles.
The term illegal doesn’t begin to describe what the Trump administration is doing in Portland. The only way this behavior will stop is if it catches the attention of the nation. Trump wants to break the law with no one notices. That is why he is using the pandemic as cover for the activities in Portland. People must do what Sen. Merkley and the Oregon congressional leaders are doing.
Call Trump out, and make him a political price for his shattering of the Constitution.
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