“Wonder Woman” star Lynda Carter on Friday used the power she possesses on social media to fight back against Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Carter, who famously played the iconic superhero in the 1970s television series, shared a post by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) highlighting a recent CNN segment showing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s aggressive tactics as protests against the agency continue in Minneapolis and nationwide.
Warren reminded Americans that they’re paying for ICE operations and noted that the president’s “Big Ugly” spending bill funneled billions of dollars to the agency when the money could’ve gone to lowering health care costs.
“Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities,” Warren wrote.
Carter later took on anyone “confused” about the reshare.
“This should clear it up,” she wrote alongside a screenshot of her as Wonder Woman delivering a devastating strike on a Nazi officer, Colonel Kesselman (played by Bo Brundin), in a 1976 episode.
In recent weeks, Carter has shared posts signaling disgust over ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shooting Minneapolis resident Renee Good in her vehicle.
Over the years, the actor has celebrated her Mexican heritage and paid tribute to her grandmother, Martina, who travelled with her family from Mexico to the United States as a baby. Back in 1981, Carter remarked on how her grandmother raised 10 children “under pretty rough circumstances” and held her family together “through her spirit, her energy and her great dignity.”
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In June, Carter took to social media to declare that she’s “LATINA AND PROUD” amid anti-ICE protests that saw Trump federalize the California National Guard and order thousands of troops to Los Angeles.
“I am the product of immigration,” wrote Carter, who noted that her mother “was a fierce, gorgeous Latina woman of Mexican and Spanish descent.”
She continued, “Immigrants built this country. Apart from people indigenous to the US, we are ALL immigrants. This madness must stop.”
“Enslaved people built this country as well, in no small part, and I appreciate those giving the reminder that this needs to be purposefully articulated. ❤️ I stand with you,” Carter concluded.
