Stances on the issues
Immigration
I come from the immigrant rights movement, and I will never budge from my belief that we should not increase funding to ICE and CBP. It does nothing but cost taxpayers more than just creating legal avenues for people to come in legally. Additionally, ICE has long believed they are above the law and have a history of human rights violations and racism toward black migrants and refugees and toward Latino migrants our nation owes a great debt to the work immigrants provide to this country. They feed and work essential jobs in this nation and the least we can do is provide a pathway so they can come out of the shadows and stop allowing ICE to terrorize our immigrant community, a majority of which are working class people like us. We will not allow ICE or Border Patrol to come into our neighborhoods and tear families apart or kidnap our students who dare disagree with a fascist and oligarchic government.
Neither will we allow them to enter our public schools and terrorize our children or take them away.
Palestine and Israel
Israel is currently led by an extremist far right government who have a blatant disregard of human rights. The United States is a free independent nation. We should not be lackeys or accomplices to murder of the innocent, and if the Israeli government doesn’t believe in following international law, our nation must cease weapon shipments. Palestinians should be allowed independence, sovereignty, and self determination of their lands. All occupying Israeli forces must leave. All attempts of settling in lands currently home to Palestinians must cease or this cycle of anger and animosity will not end. All land taken by Israel during the course of the war must be given back, and settlers who took land from Palestinians should return them back to those removed from their homes.
Settlers must return to Israel and all violations of human rights and crimes must be investigated and prosecuted.
Corporate donations
Corporate money is a corrupting force in our democracy, and I believe it is time to remove our reliance on big oil money and corporate donations and focus on building a strong fundraising base from our communities and constituents. We can do it with a strong message and that way our party is not beholden to special interests who don’t have the concerns of the community at heart and only seek to make more wealth for themselves. And secure their political power, we must be leaders and servants of the people not the corporate billionaire class. It is time to reclaim our party from the special interests, and the out of touch.
Unions
Unions are one of the pillars of this nation without unions there would be no-one to challenge corporate greed and undemocratic ideals. Unions in this nation have had a long history of making the corporate elite sweat and improving the quality of life in this country and I will always show up and support labor on any picket line, because unions are the voice of the working class and an organized working class is the best defense against corporate greed and fascism, and we must unionize more workplaces and be willing to work together with organized labor as a party to help them win better contracts and use any leverage we can to support them.
Rise of fascism
Unfortunately the Republican Party of today is embracing fascism and anti democratic ideals and are not only arresting us who dare oppose but deporting US citizens and now disregarding the supreme court our nation and our very democracy is at risk and there is no room for error. We must fight back and use every tool in our arsenal from protesting, to urging our members to obstruct the process and organizing in our neighborhoods to ensure we build a working class movement to fight back against those who wish to silence us and destroy our democracy. And it starts with us electing a leader who will fight back. One willing to organize with delegates and activists and our elected leaders against the threat we face today.
The rise of political prisoners
“When a long train of abuses and usurpations…evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security.”
The Trump Administration’s intent to revoke habeas corpus protections for immigrants and international students, stripping them of their right to challenge detention before deportation, is an unprecedented assault on the foundations of due process. It is not just a policy shit, a campaign promise, or an ideological difference. Rather, it is the deliberate erosion of one of the oldest and most fundamental protections in American law. Protections that, if withdrawn, risk the judicial and constitutional safety of all, including citizens.
We have already seen the implications of this threat. Palestinian student Mahmoud Khalil was detained, interrogated, and released only after intense public pressure. His crime? Daring to speak out for Palestinian lives. Let us be clear: this is political retaliation and imprisonment, unfit for a country claiming to lead the free world. It is behavior befitting a dictator, not the ultimate protector of our constitutional freedoms.
If it can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.
Today, it is pro-Palestinian voices. Tomorrow, it could be LGBTQ+ advocates, Dreamers, anti-ICE organizers, labor leaders, civil rights defenders, simply anyone who dares to dissent.
History shows us where this leads. Civil liberties do not vanish all at once. Rather, they are chipped away, group by group, under the guise of “national interest.” Each time we tolerate injustice against a so-called “outside,” we set the precedent for injustice against us all.
As I run for Chair of the California Democratic Party, I say this not as a political slogan, but a personal oath: We must resist the use of state power to silence, detain, or erase political opposition. That is not democracy. That is authoritarianism in plain sight.
This is our duty. Not just to immigrants. Not just to minorities. Not just to activists.
But to democracy itself.
