Here I am again, trying to share my grief, my horror with members of Congress who seem to have no humanity, no soul.
Let me say the quiet part out loud: Renee Nicole Macklin Good was a young, white, Christian mother and poet. Maybe those facts alone will be enough to horrify Americans who otherwise wouldn’t care about her death, horrify them into action against the actions of the current regime.
My letter:
I’m writing to share my grief and horror over the killing of Renee Nicole Good, a young Minneapolis mom and poet, by an ICE agent on January 7, 2026. I urge you to oppose the Trump regime’s attacks on immigrant communities and hold him and his cabinet accountable for their authoritarian and unlawful tactics. I beg you to:
- Demand a full investigation of ICE agents’ indiscriminate use of deadly force against protesters;
- Conduct public oversight investigations into the conduct of ICE agents and conditions of detention facilities to ensure the rights and safety of detainees;
- Oppose any federal funding bill that supports ICE and enables the Trump regime to terrorize our communities and violate our due process rights;
- Forcefully condemn the regime’s targeted and racist attacks against certain immigrant populations; and
- Call for the impeachment of Kristi Noem as Secretary of Homeland Security.
Ms. Good’s death should be a tipping point for all members of Congress. ICE agents are not just out of control; they are being encouraged by Secretary Noem to use excessive, deadly force on peaceful protesters. The courts have ruled against these aggressive tactics, and yet ICE persists with pepper-spraying protesters full in the face, beating protesters, and now killing them and denying them life-saving assistance.
As long as you support the deployment of ICE and Customs and Borders Police into American cities, you are culpable for all that they do, and you will be held accountable. You must stand up to President Trump and stand up for Americans like Renee Nicole Good.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thank you for reading, and many thanks to 5Calls.org whose script I slightly modified for this letter.
Featured photo: Steven Garcia/NurPhoto/Shutterstock .
Marie at 1 Write Way 
5 responses to “(Yet Again) An Open Letter to My Congress Members”
Thank you, Marie. I don’t know what the tipping point is anymore, or if there is on, but we have to keep speaking up.
Puppy-killer will probably claim Ms. Good was a Venezuelan gang member working out of a pizza place. No lies are too outrageous.
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Yeah, I’m still trying to face what is the apparent willingness of too many in Congress to allow innocent people to die, whether by lawless acts of violence by ICE or by vaccine-preventable deaths or by removing financial support for food. If we are so fortunate that the Dems take back the House and (fingers crossed) even the Senate, I hope they will have the stomach to follow through on impeachments and censures, whatever needs to be done to hold the Rs responsible. I’ll be a thorn in their side too if they don’t.
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The GOP is complicit in a thousand ways. But that they would give up their own power for the felon is astonishing. So many deaths because of them, and more with the things you mention.
I hope a Democratic Congress will happen, and I hope they will follow through, too. Actually, I hope that enough GOP members will finally grow spines.
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I have no words.
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If Americas President is the so called “leader of the free world”, then everyone in the “free world” should get to vote. It is horrifying what is transpiring.
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