The devastating killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good are devastating reminders that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol are not making our communities safer. Instead, they are operating with impunity, using deadly force in broad daylight, terrorizing neighborhoods, and tearing young children from their families.
These are not isolated incidents. ICE and Border Patrol have been unleashed into our cities to carry out violence and abuse without consequence.
How many more people must die before our leaders act?
This is what unchecked, militarized immigration enforcement looks like. The Trump administration’s cruel and unlawful anti-immigration agenda is killing people—and then they’re lying about it.
Not one more dime should be spent enabling this horror. Your voice is urgently needed to STOP THIS.
Keep the Pressure Going: Tell Lawmakers to Defund ICE!
Lawmakers are already preparing new proposals that could once again allocate money to ICE and Border Patrol and strengthen their reach. Our communities deserve better than endless militarization, mass detention, and violent enforcement tactics. We need Senators to adopt these clear priorities in any funding legislation:
- No DHS bill should move forward without real cuts to ICE and Border Patrol.
- Not another dollar for ICE or Border Patrol until Congress completes a full investigation into recent killings and use of force, including deadly force, by federal civil immigration officials into whether the administration has targeted cities for major enforcement operations on the basis of racial profiling or political retribution, and the deaths of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Keith Porter, and Silverio Villegas González.
- Not another dollar for ICE or Border Patrol until they are out of Minneapolis, Maine, and all of the communities where they have surged forces.
- No enforcement at schools, hospitals, places of worship, or other sensitive locations.
- An end to family detention and private detention contracts.
- Real accountability for abuses by federal officers, including ending qualified immunity.
- No expansion of mass enforcement operations targeting refugees and immigrant communities.
Call Your Senators Today
Call 347-514-6400 now to be connected to your senators and follow the guidance below (you can even read it like a script) to urge them to use their legislative power to stop any new funding for DHS, ICE, and CBP and demand real accountability:
- Dial 347-514-6400.
- Identify yourself as a constituent and tell them what city or town you’re calling from. If you don’t feel safe sharing your last name, don’t.
- Say that you’re deeply concerned about CBP and ICE’s dangerous, militarized enforcement — especially after the recent killings by federal agents in Minneapolis and a two-decade record of 32 people dying in detention last year.
- Share that you know that Congress is finalizing the Homeland Security funding bill right now, and that you urge the senator to oppose any additional funding. Not one more dime!
- Make it clear that we don’t want more masked agents in our communities, terrorizing our family, friends, and neighbors, and locking them up without due process. We need to rein in the Trump administration’s reckless abuses of the rights of immigrants and communities under the guise of immigration enforcement.
The growing presence of ICE and CBP, along with the militarized crackdowns on protests we have witnessed in recent months, has violated the right to freedom of expression and has made our communities unsafe, harming ALL OF US.
We refuse to accept this as normal. We must fight back.
Call your senators at 347-514-6400 now to urge them to speak out against more funding for ICE before this bill is finalized.
Sign this petition to tell Congress to vote NO on the DHS Appropriations Bill!