J. B. Pritzker
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And also another man, Silverio Viegas Gonzalez, who was killed after dropping his two children off at daycare forβ
He was in his car as well.
But importantly, how should we react?
And, you know, shouldn't we, shouldn't people peacefully protest, for goodness sakes, and speak out?
And more than that, right?
I mean, take them to court.
Fight them in every way we can that's not violent.
That's why people need to speak up.
Look, my belief is that our obligation is to make sure we don't have a democracy if people can't vote.
And we're trying to protect that even in the face of the onslaught of, and who could have imagined that he'd be talking about or even trying to deploy troops to do these kinds of things.
I didn't imagine it before the 2020 elections and the aftermath of it in January 6th, for goodness sakes.
So now, you know, I think everybody, and I want to,
pay attention, I want people to pay attention especially to the election of secretaries of state in states where the secretary of state is in charge of the voting.
So we've got to protect those elections and elect people to secretary of state positions who believe in democracy and who are going to protect people's votes.
The tangible difference is ICE and CBP today under Donald Trump are stopping US citizens who are black and brown and demanding to see citizenship papers.
Now, I don't know about you.
I don't get asked for citizenship papers.
I don't have any on me.
But they're doing it, and they're doing it to people who are not undocumented.
They're doing it to people who are here legally, people who have lived here maybe generations, U.S.