Donald Trump, US president since January 2025, publicly welcoming a falling dollar represents a sharp break from decades of US currency orthodoxy.

Donald Trump, US president since January 2025, publicly welcoming a falling dollar represents a sharp break from decades of US currency orthodoxy.

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Text SIGN PEJYXD to 50409 — I am writing to urge you to take immediate action to stop the Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy that authorizes agents to forcibly enter homes without judicial warrants. This policy, detailed in a May 12, 2025 memo from ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons, violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. The memo permits ICE agents to enter homes using only administrative warrants, which lack a judge's signature authorizing home entry. This represents a fundamental departure from constitutional protections that require judicial oversight before government agents break into private residences. As Senator Richard Blumenthal stated, this policy "should terrify Americans" because "in our democracy, with vanishingly rare exceptions, the government is barred from breaking into your home without a judge giving a green light." The implementation of this policy has been deliberately secretive. According to whistleblowers who shared the memo with Congress, it was not widely distributed despite being labeled "all-hands." Some agents received only verbal briefings while others could view but not keep copies, with clear warnings that speaking out would result in termination. This secrecy suggests the administration knows the policy cannot withstand public scrutiny. The consequences are already devastating. Since January 20, approximately 220,000 people have been arrested by ICE, including 75,000 individuals with no criminal records. The fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Renee Good by an ICE agent on January 7 in Minneapolis demonstrates the deadly risks of unchecked enforcement authority. Whistleblower Aid, representing the whistleblowers, emphasized that this policy "flies in the face of longstanding federal law enforcement training material and policies, all rooted in constitutional assessments." Training new recruits with no prior law enforcement experience to disregard the Fourth Amendment sets a dangerous precedent that threatens every American's constitutional rights. I urge you to introduce or support legislation that explicitly prohibits ICE from entering homes without judicial warrants and to demand immediate suspension of this unconstitutional policy.

Text SIGN PKXKBI to 50409 — I am writing to urge you to oppose the Trump administration's aggressive use of the Helms-Burton Act to advance regime change in Cuba and to defend Congressional authority over matters of war and foreign policy. On February 23, 2025, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases that could dramatically escalate tensions with Cuba while enriching corporate interests at the expense of diplomatic stability. In Exxon Mobil Corp. v. Corporación Cimex, S.A., ExxonMobil seeks to strip Cuban government entities of sovereign immunity entirely over assets expropriated in 1960. In Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., a Kentucky-based company controlled by Mickael Behn, heir to International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, demands $439 million from four US cruise lines for using Havana port facilities between 2016 and 2019, based on a 1904 lease that expired in 2004. The Trump administration has filed amicus briefs supporting both corporate plaintiffs, calling compensation for these claims a "paramount" foreign policy interest. This position aligns with Secretary of State Marco Rubio's stated goals of regime change in Cuba and Venezuela. Every president from Clinton through Obama suspended Title III of the Helms-Burton Act to avoid straining relations with allies. Trump activated it in April 2019 after a lobbying campaign by Behn and fellow claimant Javier Garcia-Bengochea, working with Otto Reich, John Bolton, and the Cormac Group. Legal expert Robert Muse notes that in six years since Title III became operative, nobody has received a judgment. Most cases have been dismissed on procedural grounds. Yet the Supreme Court has devoted two docket slots to this issue despite only 50 total cases and no circuit split, suggesting extraordinary political pressure. This is vulture capitalism driving foreign policy. Cruise lines warn that accepting these theories would expose companies to massive retroactive liability and chill future normalization efforts. More fundamentally, this represents the executive branch using corporate lawsuits to pursue regime change without Congressional authorization. I urge you to publicly oppose these lawsuits, demand that the administration respect Congressional war powers, and support legislation to suspend Title III of the Helms-Burton Act. Diplomacy and Congressional authority must not be sacrificed to corporate profit-seeking.

Text SIGN PGJEEK to 50409 — Recent reporting has revealed that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a secret internal memo dated May 12, 2025, authorizing agents to forcibly enter private homes without a judicial warrant, relying instead on administrative warrants issued within the executive branch. This policy violates the Fourth Amendment. For more than four decades, Supreme Court precedent has drawn a “firm line at the entrance to the house.” In Payton v. New York, the Court held that law enforcement may not enter a home to make an arrest without a warrant issued by a neutral and detached judicial officer, absent narrow, case-specific exceptions such as consent or true exigent circumstances. Administrative convenience, internal authorization, or asserted probable cause by officers in the field are not sufficient. ICE’s reported guidance attempts to erase that constitutional line by substituting executive-branch paperwork for judicial authorization. Administrative warrants—signed by immigration officers who are employees of the enforcing agency—are not judicial warrants. They do not satisfy the Fourth Amendment requirement that a judge independently assess probable cause before the government crosses the threshold of a home. The memo itself reportedly acknowledges that the Department of Homeland Security “has not historically relied on administrative warrants alone” to enter residences. Nevertheless, it asserts that DHS lawyers now believe the Constitution does not prohibit such entries. That claim directly contradicts controlling Supreme Court law, including Payton and Steagald v. United States, which makes clear that even a valid arrest warrant does not grant law enforcement a general license to enter homes without judicial authorization. Equally troubling is how this policy was handled. According to whistleblower disclosures, the memo was not formally distributed, was conveyed largely through verbal briefings, and agents were instructed to read and return the document. This extraordinary secrecy raises serious concerns about whether ICE leadership understood the guidance would not withstand judicial or congressional scrutiny. Exceptions to the warrant requirement—such as consent or exigent circumstances—are narrow, fact-specific doctrines. They cannot be transformed into a standing policy authorizing forced home entry as a routine enforcement practice. An emergency cannot be declared by memo, and necessity cannot be institutionalized to bypass constitutional limits. If allowed to stand, this policy would normalize warrantless home entry by federal agents and undermine one of the Constitution’s most fundamental protections. Once the Fourth Amendment’s protections at the home’s threshold are weakened, the damage will not be confined to immigration enforcement. Congress has both the authority and the obligation to act. We urge you to: 1. Publicly repudiate ICE’s reliance on administrative warrants for home entry as inconsistent with the Fourth Amendment. 2. Conduct immediate oversight and investigation into the drafting, legal review, approval, dissemination, and implementation of the May 12, 2025 memo, including holding responsible officials accountable through removal from leadership roles, disciplinary action, and referral for appropriate consequences where warranted. 3. Enact statutory safeguards explicitly prohibiting ICE and DHS from entering homes without a judicial warrant. 4. Use Congress’s power of the purse to condition funding on full compliance with Fourth Amendment requirements. 5. Replace and reform ICE to ensure constitutional limits are respected, enforced, and institutionalized. The Fourth Amendment is not optional. It cannot be rewritten by internal memoranda or displaced by administrative forms. Congress must act now to stop an unconstitutional practice before it becomes entrenched as standard operating procedure.

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