This week, US Rep Troy Carter supports free speech, immigration, and public safety. He is making his position public.

New Orleans Democrat Rep. Troy Carter is working to support free speech, due process, and education. Unfortunately, those rights are under attack. Immigrants are feeling the attack, even though many are in the US legally.

As proof, two college students are currently in Louisiana immigration detention centers for exercising free speech. Both are being held without due process. In response, local democratic leaders are questioning their wrongful detention. 

What is wrongful detention and due process?

The college students Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Öztürk have no charges against them, yet they are not free to leave.  As a result, their imprisonment is wrongful detention.

Is everyone entitled to Due Process?

Yes! This explainer video, created by the University of California Law’s Dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, a leading constitutional attorney, helps make sense of the wording in the US Constitution.

They are not alone, and Carter is siding with universities

Columbia and Tufts University students are under threat of losing of their right to learn, speak, and write. As universities country-wide are under attack,  Harvard is suing to protect their right to educate future generations. And now, the Big Ten is stepping in to defend a fruitful college education.

Are you a college football fan?

The Big Ten colleges, famous for football and your weekend plans, are also united in Rep Troy Carter’s defense of education and its free speech.

Like Carter, universities are working to ensure their student athletes, researchers, and top talent can continue to get a stellar education and play ball. Both are interested in a bright American future.

The sharing of ideas and scientific discovery funding for universities is under attack. Researchers are leaving because laboratory funding is being cut. This is a brain drain for America as our top professors leave for other countries. Why? Other countries are eager to benefit from their talent and will even pay more. As a result, famous professors, promising students, and engineers feel they must leave to protect themselves from arrests.

If students and professors do not agree to be silenced, they could be sent to an ICE detention center.

However, nobody thinks their child should go to jail for trying to improve their opportunities by getting an education. Attending college is a time for making new friends and making discoveries, a time to prepare for a career. Instead, our talented youth are afraid of going to prison for learning.

Louisiana and ICE Detention Centers

According to Alanah Odoms, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, roughly 7,000 people are jailed in Louisiana ICE facilities at any given time. 

The Democratic leaders who went to these prisons with Odoms reported a lack of food and medical care, which included non-treatment for asthma attacks. Hopefully, our leaders will continue to fight for human rights.

Showing elected officials your thanks by leaving a voicemail does a lot to encourage our representatives to keep up the good work.

We are thrilled that Rep. Troy Carter supports free speech, education, and due process. Hopefully, we’ll hear more about the team of democrats who joined him and their progress. Thank you to US Rep. Bennie Thompson, Sen. Edward J. Markey, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, and Rep. Jim McGovern, who also visited the ICE detention centers and are fighting for justice.