John,

Congress is in a rush to craft budgets that “fast track” large cuts to human needs, and their proposals include drastic cuts to critical programs like Medicaid and SNAP in exchange for paying for extending Donald Trump’s tax handouts to the wealthy and funding family separation and mass deportations which will cost billions of dollars.

If congressional Republicans get their way, we would revisit the horrors of the first Trump administration where families were literally ripped apart, communities were devastated, and thousands of people were placed in open-air prisons. Only this time is much worse, with families being ripped apart in local communities and more detention centers being built along the U.S. Mexico border and one in Guantánamo Bay.

Send a message to Congress demanding they reject cuts to essential programs in order to fund Trump’s mass deportation machine.

The United States already operates the largest immigrant detention system in the world,¹ but this second Trump administration wants to more than double the current capacity to more than 100,000 beds.² The majority of ICE detention centers are operated by private prison corporations that―based on an internal review by senior immigration officials―need to be closed down due to lack of adequate medical care for detainees, cases of sexual assault, and detainee deaths.³

A study showed that between 2017 and 2021, 95% of deaths in ICE custody were preventable.⁴

It’s unconscionable for the U.S. government to continue to inflict harm on vulnerable populations while at the same time working to cut programs and services for vulnerable communities.

Send a message to Congress now urging them to reject cuts to human needs programs in order to fund Trump’s mass deportation program.

Thank you for all you do,

Dominique Espinoza
Policy and Strategic Partnerships Manager, CHN Action

¹ How the US built the world's largest immigrant detention system
² Trump's stepped-up immigration arrests escalate need for more detention space
³ Biden vowed to reform immigration detention. Instead, private prisons benefited
⁴ Deadly Failures: Preventable Deaths in U.S. Immigrant Detention