Congressional Republicans this week launched an investigation into more than 200 immigrant charity organizations, a move that Democratic lawmakers and the targeted groups condemned as an egregious effort to intimidate opponents of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda.
“Terror is the point. Cruelty is the point. Fear is the point,” Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) said Friday in response to the probe, which was announced earlier this week by top Republicans on the House Committee on Homeland Security (CHS).
“The actions of Republicans on CHS unlawfully target organizations standing against their authoritarian power grab,” said Ramirez. “An attack on civil society is an attack on us all. We must dissent.”
On Tuesday, Reps. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) and Josh Brecheen (R-Okla.) sent letters to at least 215 organizations in a purported effort to “determine whether these NGOs used taxpayer dollars to facilitate illegal activity.”
