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Tell Congress: Stop ICE & Border Patrol's Deadly Detention Expansion & Mass Arrests
UPDATE: Congress continues to fight over funding for abusive immigration enforcement agencies, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Lawmakers responded to the growing outrage across the United States, in the wake of ICE and CBP’s fatal shootings of U.S. citizen protesters. Congress has negotiated reforms to restrict these agencies from committing further violence, and fought to reclaim the dozens of billions of taxpayer dollars the administration has used to wage its militarized crackdowns on U.S. communities. Now instead of heeding these warnings, Senate and House Majority leaders are preparing to send tens of billions more ICE and CBP’s way.
Now is the time to make sure Congress hears from you! Tell your Representatives and Senators to stand firm and demand not one more dollar for ICE and Border Patrol and keep up the fight for policy changes to stop the violence being waged on our communities!
Congress is still negotiating its fiscal year 2026 bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which sets the annual funding levels for the increasingly deadly immigration detention and deportation system.
Now, Senate and House leadership are working to fulfill the White House demands by using the reconciliation process again to send tens of billions more to these agencies for the remainder of Trump’s term.
The request for more funding using the reconciliation process opens the door to new horrors for communities still suffering from the windfall of funds shelled out to immigration enforcement agencies last summer.
Last summer, Congress gave more than $170 billion to DHS to supersize its militarized deportation surge forces and immigration detention camps and prison system. With that money, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is locking up a record number of community members, leading to more deaths in detention than ever before. Sixteen people have died in ICE custody this year already, including at least one death ruled a homicide. This followed 32 deaths in 2025, on top of 17 deaths in CBP detention since January 2025. The Trump administration is also planning to spend $38 billion on contracts for warehouses as detention sites, some the size of Japanese internment camps. At the same time, ICE and Border Patrol agents continue to terrorize our communities as seen with the horrific murders of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota.
Congress must take action to get ICE and Border Patrol forces out of our communities for good and stop the detention expansion. Now is the time to block any new contracts for massive new detention centers, including for families with children, and stop funneling billions of dollars to private prison contractors. Congress must stop the militarized operations by masked agents targeting longtime residents, children, and U.S. citizens and oppose any legislation that would further fuel a system of mass incarceration that is causing irreversible harm to our country.
We need our elected leaders to refuse to give ICE or Border Patrol more money to detain and harm our community members, and fight to redirect the hundreds of billions provided in last year’s reconciliation bill away from these agencies.
Use the form to tell your members of Congress to stop enabling ICE and Border Patrol’s cruelty and instead invest in our communities.
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Thank you for urging your members of Congress to stop ICE's deadly detention expansion & mass arrests!
Here are some other ways you can help:
📞 CALL your members of Congress to really make sure they hear us! Call the capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senators or Representatives. When you're connected to their office, you can use this call script:
"Hello, my name is [your name], and as a constituent I urge [Senator or Representative name] to oppose any legislation that expands immigration detention and gives ICE or Border Patrol more money to detain and harm our community members. Our communities deserve investment in health, education, and programs that benefit everyone’s well-being, and giving more money to ICE and CBP is unconscionable right now."
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