President Trump’s cruel and dangerous funding bill passed—and over $150 billion of taxpayer dollars will now supercharge mass deportations and detentions, including a massive expansion of ICE operations in our communities. That means Congress authorized a threefold increase to ICE’s budget.
This bill will fundamentally reshape the U.S. for the worse.
ICE is now armed with a budget larger than nearly every military on Earth.
And how is Trump paying for it? By slashing Medicaid, food assistance, and other life-saving programs.
- More than 14 million people are now at risk of losing health care.
- More than 10 million, including 4 million children, could lose access to food assistance.
This isn’t just a policy decision. It’s a cruel attack on those most in need and on immigrant communities and anyone seeking safety in the U.S. Every neighborhood will feel this pain—except for billionaires, who walk away untouched.
Now more than ever, our work to defend human rights and protect immigrant communities is urgent and essential.
What’s in the bill?
Trump’s budget powers the largest expansion of immigration enforcement we’ve ever seen. It includes:
- 265% increase in the cruel detention system to detain families and adults in horrific places like “Alligator Alcatraz”
- $53 billion for a border wall
- More families torn apart and children behind bars
- More arrests of protesters, elected officials, U.S. citizens, and working people
- More ICE raids in schools, hospitals, and places of worship
- More masked agents disappearing people from our communities
- People illegally sent to Guantánamo, South Sudan, or a mega-prison in El Salvador
- Millions cut off from health care, food assistance and community-based services
How is Amnesty responding?
We’ve been fighting Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda since day one—and now we’re ramping up even more. With you and over ten million people behind us, we are:
- Visiting ICE detention facilities to investigate, document, and report on conditions and treatment of those detained inside, so that ICE can’t act in secrecy
- Campaigning for individual cases and building power with communities in cities targeted by Trump to respond to the raids and protect people under attack
- Helping to reunite families and secure better treatment—including advocating for children who are separated or behind bars
- Packing courtrooms to show public support for those who have been unjustly detained
- Tracking and monitoring ICE raids at homes, workplaces, courthouses, and across communities in the U.S.
Trump’s budget will accelerate deportations, detentions, and ICE raids—and millions will lose the care, resources and services they need to survive.
We will not stay silent. But we can’t do it alone. These are hard days. But we’re not backing down.
Our efforts are WORKING
Despite the devastating news, we’ve worked together to:
- Help free Mahmoud Khalil, who was detained for peacefully protesting
- Successfully convinced a judge to issue a district-wide decision forcing the U.S. government to provide due process to people at risk of expulsion to El Salvador
- Fought back against the Trump administration’s new family separation policy
- Secured the release of Alberto, who was unlawfully arrested and detained by ICE until our advocacy helped to pressure an immigration judge to release him and Cesar and Norelia, Venezuelan parents who were at risk of being expelled to El Salvador, reuniting both families with their children.
- Uplifted the voices of dozens of immigrants in the U.S. and asylum seekers trapped at the border.
We’re grieving. We’re outraged. But we’re not giving up.
Together, we’ve stopped injustices before—and we’ll do it again.