John,
ICE and Customs and Border Protection are killing people in our streets and in ICE custody. In Minneapolis, federal immigration agents shot and killed 37-year-old ICU nurse Alex Pretti during an enforcement operation.[1] Just weeks earlier, Renee Good was killed by immigration officers in the same city. These murders are the direct result of turning immigration agencies into armed, unaccountable forces terrorizing our neighborhoods.
This week, with the Senate set to vote on 2026 government funding, we must make sure it does not include another dollar for ICE.
More than 30 people died in ICE custody last year, a 20-year high and nearly the deadliest year on record.[2] In just the first weeks of 2026, at least four more people have already died behind ICE’s walls. These deaths are the result of medical neglect, overcrowding, privatized detention, and a culture of impunity that Congress keeps enabling.
Last year alone, Republicans supercharged ICE’s terror campaign with tens of billions in new funding. Now, instead of pulling the plug on a rogue agency that cages and kills people, they want to double down by handing ICE billions of dollars more through the DHS budget.
The Senate should separate DHS and ICE funding from a larger government funding bill it’s now considering. That way, lawmakers can vote to fund essential government services without funding ICE. There is no excuse to keep writing blank checks to an agency that leaves bodies in its wake.
Send a message to your Senators right now and demand they vote NO on any DHS/ICE funding bill.
ICE’s violence does not happen in a vacuum. It is sustained by political decisions and corporate enablers that profit from detention, surveillance, and deportation. That is why we are holding ICE and its enablers accountable, including corporations that make money off this machinery of harm.
Every additional dollar Congress gives ICE means more raids, more detention beds, more deadly encounters, and more families torn apart.
Voting for more ICE funding now locks in this out-of-control immigration policy. Continued funding entrenches mass detention and aggressive enforcement, even as abuse and deaths mount.
The Senate has leverage right now. By separating DHS/ICE funding from other government funding, Senators can keep the government’s lights on without endorsing ICE brutality.
Tell your Senators: Not one more dollar for ICE. Vote NO on DHS funding and stop enabling ICE violence.
Together, we can force accountability.
David Kass
Executive Director
Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund
[1] Minneapolis becomes ground zero in Trump's immigration crackdown: Arrests, protests and 2 fatal shootings by agents
[2] Immigrant detention deaths reach 20-year high under Trump
