The Constitution is only as strong as our willingness to defend it.

The United States has long stood on a bedrock of due process — enshrined in the Fifth and 14th Amendments, which guard against exactly this kind of arbitrary state violence. But the Trump administration has acted as if constitutional rights are expendabl

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This Op-Ed was published by a number of U.S. Senators from the state of Massachusetts who traveled to the detention facility that Rumeysa Ozturk is being unlawfully held at - to see for themselves the repressive conditions in which the Trump Administration is trying to normalize for immigrants, visa holders, naturalized/birthright citizens and ultimately - for Americans.

Also included in the OP-ED - Make no mistake: Ms. Ozturk’s case is not an isolated one. This administration has already overseen a wave of unconstitutional actions: raids without warrants, prolonged detentions without hearings and retaliatory deportations. Each case chips away at the rule of law. Each one makes it easier for the next to go unnoticed. And each one brings us closer to the authoritarianism we once believed could never take root on American soil.

When a government begins to imprison writers for their words, when it abandons legal norms for political convenience, when it cloaks oppression in the language of national security, alarm bells must ring. Loudly.

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