Reverend Paul Brandeis Rauschenbusch

In the United States of America, they are demanding to see people's papers.

They have detained citizens and non-citizens alike, shot people dead through their windshields and while laying face down in the street.

When the courts have ruled against this administration's lawless conduct of its administration raids, their opinions have been ignored.

When universities dare to protest, their federal funding has been cut.

When law firms represent clients whose interests are adverse to the administration, they are punished.

When media organizations speak truth to power, they are forced to pay him millions personally.

And chief among those tools is one more powerful than all the rest, and that is the right to vote.

And this November, this November, my friends, we must use that tool.

We must vote.

One man's story tells us why.

On a Saturday afternoon in June in Orange County, California, a landscaper named Narciso Barranco was working outside an IHOP.

He'd lived in the United States since the 1990s, undocumented, yes, but no criminal record.

American in every way except for in his papers.

In that time, he'd raised three sons, all U.S.

Marines.

That Saturday in June,

A group of men approached, masked, in tactical gear, guns drawn.

They tackled him, pepper sprayed him, beat him violently, dislocating his shoulder.

When he was finally able to get in touch with his family over the phone, he had one request of his sons.

He asked them to retrieve his landscaping tools and finish the job he was doing.