A North Carolina congressman is calling attention to an anti-immigration enforcement organization that gets its donations through the Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue.
“By teaching illegal aliens how to evade [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] detention, organizations like Siembra NC are actively promoting an invasion of our country,” Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., told The Daily Signal. Siembra is Spanish for “sowing” or “seed time.”
“Siembra and its financial backers should be held accountable for undermining the rule of law and making North Carolina communities less safe,” Harris said.
Siembra NC operates a hotline to report ICE activity in local communities.
“Let’s protect ourselves and each other from abusive employers, landlords, discrimination, and La Migra,” Siembra NC writes on its website. “La Migra” refers to ICE.
“Once we’re able to verify the threat, we will alert our community,” Siembra NC states.
The group was founded in 2017 specifically “in response to [President Donald] Trump’s war on immigrants and the gap in support and resources for the broader Latine community in North Carolina.”
Siembra NC touts itself as being “pro-black, pro-indigena, pro-worker, pro-[women], pro-lesbian gay, bi, trans and queer, pro-climate and pro-migrant.”
The organization’s “visual tool kit” includes graphics declaring that the “history of the police has racist origins” and calling for individuals to “stop ICE.”
(SiembraNC.org)
Siembra NC did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment.
Harris is calling attention to Siembra NC amid a spike in violence against ICE agents.
Since Trump returned to the White House in January and commissioned Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and border czar Tom Homan to rapidly arrest and deport illegal aliens, prioritizing the apprehension and removal of criminal illegal aliens, ICE officers have faced a 1,000% increase in assaults, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
The group runs its donations through ActBlue, a Democrat fundraising platform that GOP lawmakers are investigating and have subpoenaed over concerns of possible “fraudulent or illegal” donation activity.
In June, multiple House committee chairmen, including House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent subpoenas to ActBlue’s former vice president of customer service and an ActBlue senior workflow specialist. The subpoenas were sent regarding “allegations that online fundraising platforms, including ActBlue, have accepted fraudulent donations from domestic and foreign sources,” according to the Judiciary Committee.
About a month later, GOP lawmakers, again including Jordan, issued “a subpoena to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones for materials related to the Committees’ investigation into the fundraising platform,” the House Judiciary Committee states.
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