Friend –
This is what sustained pressure looks like.
After days of calls, signatures, and public opposition, the Senate blocked the DHS funding bill from moving forward. A bill that would have handed ICE and Border Patrol more money with no enforceable accountability was stopped in its tracks because people refused to let it slide.
That matters.
It means lawmakers now have to negotiate. It means the conversation has shifted. And it means measures to hold ICE and Border Patrol accountable for their dangerous escalation tactics, in Minnesota and across the country, are now on the table because supporters like you forced the issue.
But blocking the bill was the first step, not the finish line.
Negotiations are happening now, and this is the moment when deals get watered down behind closed doors unless pressure stays loud and focused. Senators in both parties are weighing whether accountability will be real and enforceable, or whether it will be reduced to vague promises that change nothing once the cameras are gone.
Senate Democrats held the line and made this pause possible. Now senators in both parties need to hear that the public expects more than a cosmetic fix. Accountability cannot be symbolic. It has to change how these agencies operate and prevent the kind of violence that brought us here in the first place.
The bill is blocked because people spoke up. The outcome will depend on whether they keep hearing from us.
This moment proves something important. Congress slowed this bill down because people organized, stayed engaged, and made it politically impossible to move forward as if nothing had happened. The question now is whether lawmakers follow through with meaningful reform or try to settle for the minimum and hope attention moves on.
What happens next will show whether this pause leads to real accountability or just another reset that leaves the same dangerous system intact.
Thank you for your advocacy,
People For the American Way
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