Since Donald Trump assumed his second term as President of the United States, a fierce political struggle began between conservative forces and the progressive majorities of the nation.

Since January 20, conservatives have demanded that the president fulfill his campaign promises, which has unleashed a fierce national campaign of arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants. This repressive and inhumane wave was initiated and coordinated by the head of Homeland Security, Kristie Noem, and the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller. These sinister figures have not only used ICE and Border Patrol agents to achieve their minimum objective of arresting and deporting at least 3,000 undocumented workers per day. For this reason, they have incorporated into this unconstitutional work agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and members of the armed forces, which is illegal. Here I emphasize the fact that the unexpected and heroic resistance of the Latino people to police and military practices has revealed that the objective of these federal contingents transcends repression and is to establish a fascist regime in the nation that once boasted of being a beacon of world democracy. The response of the American people has historical dimensions. On June 14, five million citizens heeded the first call of a broad national coalition called “March-No Kings,” but just four months later, on October 18, more than seven million people in over 2,700 cities across the nation reaffirmed their determination not to allow modern-day Nazis to murder the Republic and our democratic form of government and replace it with a totalitarian police state. During these 10 months in which the far-right Republican Party led by Trump (the MAGA Movement) has entrenched itself in power, the organization “Refuse Fascism,” has alerted the American people to the urgent need for us to become aware that fascism has ceased to be a future possibility and has become a sinister hallmark. In response, slogans that will go down in history have been coined: “Trump must go now” and “Down with Trump's fascist regime,” which are driving a broad campaign of organization and mobilization in Washington, DC, the seat of national political power. To effectively shape the struggle to remove from power the tycoon whose mental state is exposed by behavioral professionals, Refuse Fascism called on the American people to demonstrate en masse in the nation's capital on November 5 (the first anniversary of Trump's election to a second term). This mobilization was preceded on November 4 by important elections in the cities of New York and Seattle (to elect new mayors), California (Proposition 50), and West Virginia and New Jersey (to elect new governors). The Democratic Party swept the board, dealing a severe blow to the attacker of fundamental rights in the United States. The following day, thousands of Demonstrators from across the country gathered in the nation's capital at the George Washington Monument, where speeches were given by political leaders of all races and ethnicities. Afterward, we marched past the Senate offices, the Capitol, the Supreme Court, and many other landmarks. The march covered approximately two and a half miles. Members of the immigrant community who were present ensured that the historic demand of our people—"Unconditional General Amnesty for Undocumented Workers"—was heard throughout the entire march. This historic action culminated in a rally where the voices of the co-initiators of the movement were heard: Andy Zee (New York), Sunsara Taylor (Minnesota), and Jim Keady (Liberation Theologian—Connecticut). All of these leaders emphasized the need to remain in Washington for as long as necessary to garner the support of hundreds of thousands of citizens, all committed to working toward a Only as a team until we achieve “Donald Trump Must Go.”

On November 6th, hundreds of activists gathered at 11:00 am at Georgetown University, from where we marched to George Washington University to invite students to join this ongoing campaign of civic engagement.

On November 7th, there was a march and rally in front of the Supreme Court to denounce the almost total capitulation of the members of the High Court to Trump's political designs, as they violate the Constitution (the Supreme Law of the Nation).

and roll back historical gains that expanded legal protections and rights for women, racial minorities, workers, and communities with different sexual orientations. Under the slogan “In the name of humanity, we refuse to live under a fascist regime,” those who would hold demonstrations in front of the White House were designated for November 15, 17, and 24. Meanwhile, the House of Representatives and the Senate, with an overwhelming vote of 427 to 1 and 100 to 0 respectively, forced Trump to sign a law requiring the Department of Justice to release, within the next 30 days, all unclassified files from the investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In evaluating this fierce resistance to Trump,we saw that the scales are beginning to tip in favor of the working class. Latino immigrants will be present until Trump is impeached and brought down. The present is a struggle, the future is ours. We have no doubt, and the judgment of history supports us.

Juan Jose Gutierrez is the executive director of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition. This Latino coalition has joined the efforts of Reject Fascism.