Stop Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”: Tell Your Two Senators ‘Vote NO on Reconciliation Bill That Would Fund Cruel Border Policies and Mass Deportation’

As you read this, the Senate is moving forward with a giant funding bill that will direct over $150 billion taxpayer dollars to further expand the reach of President Trump’s mass deportation, mass detention, and border militarization plans. The Trump Administration wants to fund these policies that disrupt families, communities, and our local and national economy by cutting lifesaving federal programs like food assistance and student loans.

Let that amount of money sink in.

Critical federal programs will be cut to supercharge the mass deportation machine and continue crackdowns on immigrants and people seeking safety—including family separation, family detention, ICE enforcement at schools, places of worship, and hospitals.

To fund Trump’s mass deportations, this bill would put 11 million people at risk of losing food assistance and 14 million people at risk of losing their health insurance. Experts have said that the cuts to healthcare and poverty programs would inflict harm with a “serious and generational scope,” including shrinking lifespans and worsening educational and career outcomes for young people. 

Now is the time to get informed, spread awareness, and lobby your two Senators.

What’s Happening?

On May 22, 2025, the House of Representatives passed Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which will fuel suffering rather than investing in humane, orderly and sustainable solutions. Now, the Senate is moving quickly to make this bill law.

This bill would give over $150 billion of unchecked taxpayer dollars to massively expand detention and mass deportation, including:

• $46.5 billion for physical barriers alongside the southern and northern borders, including more than 700 miles of a border wall;
• $45 billion to expand immigration detention, an 800% increase from FY2024;
• $14.4 billion for ICE deportation operations, and;
• $2.4 billion for state and local municipalities that would allow local law enforcement to act as immigration officers and pay the states for incarcerating immigrants.

In addition to the increase in funding, there are a myriad of policy changes that would add additional burdens for unaccompanied children, violate people’s rights to due process, and impose stark financial barriers for anyone seeking to come to the United States.

Cutting critical social programs while giving tax breaks to millionaires to fund attacks against immigrants and working people makes no sense.

Members of Congress should use their power of the purse to vote NO on this absurd and cruel reconciliation package.

Amnesty International USA strongly opposes any funding package that funds increased detention and mass deportations, border walls or barriers, or fuels the harmful and xenophobic policies proposed by President Trump.

A human-rights-centered approach is not only possible—it is the only sustainable solution to the broken immigration system.

What Happens Next?

While the reconciliation process allows Congress to pass large spending bills that require only a majority vote in the Senate, several senators, including key Republican senators, have already expressed doubt that it could pass.

We need to prove them right. We need you ALL to step into your activist role and prevent the Senate from making this bill law! Take action by calling, texting, emailing, lobbying, and joining AIUSA in powerful, community-led events and bold stunts. 

Together, we’ll amplify our message—loud, clear, and impossible to ignore: Mass detention and mass deportation undermine people’s dignity, separate families, and hurt communities.

We demand that Members of Congress VOTE NO to reject this harmful bill and invest in our communities instead.