Only in 2025 Connecticut can you tune into a Zoom panel titled “Tenant Power for a Green Future — Immigrant-Led Toward Sustainable Community-Controlled Housing” and watch activists who openly describe themselves as undocumented lay out a 40-minute list of demands as if breaking our laws automatically puts them in charge of rewriting them. One speaker insisted tenants can “criminalize themselves” simply by signing a lease written in English, as if the language of the country is an unfair barrier rather than the default expectation.