John,
The House is set to vote on government funding packages this week, and they to must reject new funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
Let’s be very clear about our priorities: This DHS/ICE funding package must fail.
Reckless disregard for human life is rampant in the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrants and our communities.
From Chicago to Minneapolis to California, people have been killed during ICE raids and traffic stops. And there have been at least eleven recent non-fatal shootings by ICE and Border Patrol agents in places around the country. Last year marked the deadliest year in ICE detention in 20 years, with 32 people dying in custody.1
The House is voting on government funding bills this week; next week, the Senate. Send a message to Congress and demand they stop funding ICE now.
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The proposed ICE funding increase comes right after Republicans’ Big Brutal Bill already skyrocketed ICE’s budget at the expense of human needs programs, and now, some members of Congress want to provide more funding without sufficient guardrails in place to keep our neighbors and loved ones safe.
The House will take up other funding bills for human needs programs like housing and education, and they include important funding for programs along with some guardrails to prevent the president from shifting funds around and to protect federal staffing levels. But this DHS and ICE budget will not keep our communities safe. It will continue to fund the Trump administration’s chaos.
If Congress can put in place guardrails to give some protection to human needs programs, then Congress can put adequate guardrails in place to protect our neighborhoods and loved ones from ICE’s brutality.
The House votes this week; next week, the Senate. Send a message and tell them to vote against DHS and ICE funding.
Thank you for all you do,
Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, CHN Action
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1 2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32 people who died in custody
