Democrats in a Massachusetts city bought thousands of red cards designed to remind immigrants to purchase their constitutional rights if U.S. immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) or related agencies approach.
Located six miles northwest of Boston, the Medford City Democracy Commission has purchased 4,000 cards designed to be used by citizens and non-citizens.
The card lists their Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights: protecting them from unsecured searches, seizures, and having to talk to the authorities without legal counsel.
They are printed in English on one side and translated in Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic and Haitian on the other side, and Medford Councilman Matthew Leming notes on the committee's website.
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The Democrats in Medford, Massachusetts, have 4,000 red cards in various languages, ready to be distributed. According to reports, another 4,000 are on the way. (wfxt)
He said there are another four thousand cards that have been approved for purchase, and “The red card is like a useful business card that can be handed over to an official if the holder approaches in public.”
According to Boston Fox affiliate WFXT, the program costs $826.
Leming told Fox News Digital that taxpayer funds were not used to subsidize the program. Instead, the Democratic City Commission approved the bill, he said.
"We just wanted to find something we could do to resist what is going on at the federal level," Leming told WFXT. "It's a way to protect our immigrant communities from the current government's actions."
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When Fox News Digital asked, he further noted: "These cards list basic constitutional protections that apply to all, and everyone in the United States should be aware of their constitutional rights."
The legal complexity of such an initiative is obvious – whether constitutional rights apply to non-citizens may be a hot topic of debate among legal scholars.
Medford City Councilman Matt Leming, a supporter of the Red Card Program, asserted that it reminds people of “basic constitutional protections that apply to all.” (wfxt)
Lyme hopes to take further action.
“What we are trying to do is find nonprofits that are willing to register and give us receipts for financial purposes so we can mail them out,” he said. “Many of our actions are subject to campaign finance laws.”
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Medford’s “red card” initiative came under widespread propelling of Blue State officials’ crackdown on immigration from the Trump administration, including a visit by congressmen to El Salvador to protest allegedly suspected of MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the recent attempt to restrict the Border Patrol detention of non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non-belonging non