John,
ICE and Border Patrol have become a paramilitary presence inside U.S. cities, and Congress is still treating their budget as business as usual.
In Minneapolis, immigration agents shot and killed Alex Pretti while he was holding his phone, not a weapon. Almost immediately, video evidence contradicted the outrageous official story of Pretti as the aggressor. Weeks earlier, Renee Good was killed by federal immigration officers less than a mile from where George Floyd was murdered.[1]
Inside ICE detention, the death toll keeps climbing. Last year matched the deadliest year in over two decades.[2] This year is already on pace to surpass it. People are dying from untreated illnesses, suicide, and neglect in facilities Congress continues to fund with full knowledge of the consequences.
The Senate is voting this week. Lawmakers must separate DHS/ICE funding from other government funding and vote NO on any bill that bankrolls ICE violence.
Tell your Senators: Stop funding ICE. Separate the vote and cut the money.
Despite clear evidence of ICE abuse, Republicans are pushing a DHS funding bill that hands ICE billions more, on top of last year’s massive funding windfall that expanded detention capacity and enforcement operations nationwide.
More money has not produced safety or accountability. It has produced more deaths of immigrants and citizens alike.
Congress created this crisis, and Congress can stop it. ICE’s budget is a political choice, not a necessity. Senators who vote for DHS funding are choosing to accept the deaths that follow.
We are done with excuses. We are done with “reforms” that never arrive. We are done watching lawmakers condemn violence with one hand while funding it with the other.
This is the moment to draw a line. No more blank checks. No more deaths. No more ICE funding. Take action now and demand your senators vote NO on DHS/ICE funding.
Let’s hold Congress accountable for ICE abuse.
John Foti
Legislative 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
-- David's email --
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
