# Arizona Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE agents during a chaotic federal operation at a Tucson restaurant this week. According to her statement and video she posted afterward, she approached the scene to understand why ICE was raiding a local business and detaining workers — and was hit with pepper spray as agents forcefully pushed protesters back.

Grijalva said she and her staff were “**stung by pepper spray and directly impacted by excessive use of force**” and questioned what this means for ordinary Arizonans who don’t have the platform or protection of elected office. If this is how ICE treats *a sitting member of Congress*, she asked, “imagine how they treat everyone else.”

ICE and DHS tried to downplay it, saying she was simply “in the vicinity.” But video and eyewitness accounts tell a different story: officers were aggressively clearing the area, spraying into a crowd of peaceful protesters — a crowd that happened to include a democratically elected representative doing her job.

Let’s be absolutely clear:  
**If federal agents feel free to pepper-spray a congresswoman in broad daylight, the line between democracy and authoritarian policing is already being crossed.**  
This isn’t “law enforcement.”  
This is **state violence** against elected officials and civilians — and it signals a level of impunity that should terrify every American.

ICE has a long, well-documented history of excessive force, constitutional violations, and abuse of power. But this?  
**Pepper-spraying a member of Congress?**  
It’s not just unacceptable — it’s a major warning sign of a regime that no longer recognizes democratic boundaries.

We cannot normalize this.  
We cannot shrug it off.  
We cannot pretend “both sides” have a point.

# Enough. Is. Enough.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: ICE Just Pepper-Sprayed an Arizona Congresswoman — and They Expect Us to Accept This as “Normal”?!