Take Action:
Block Trump’s $70 Billion for ICE
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(May 17, 2026) — Congress is moving to hand ICE and Border Patrol $70 billion in new funding with no reforms, no accountability, and no new guardrails until after Donald Trump is out of office.

We know what that money will buy. More detention warehouses. More black sites detention camps. All so that more families — more of our neighbors — will disappear into a system with no transparency and no oversight.

ICE has spent years expanding its capacity to terrorize communities, abuse people’s rights, and even kill American citizens in the process. Since Trump took office last year, more than 40 people have died in ICE custody, the most in such a short period of time.

This budget bill would cement that infrastructure for the next three years with a blank check and zero strings attached, possibly bringing a new ICE detention center to an old warehouse in your state.

House and Senate Republicans are using budget reconciliation to try and pass this bill, a procedural maneuver designed specifically to bypass Democratic opposition. They know how unpopular ICE is, which is why they’re trying to rush this through on a party-line vote.

ACTION: We refuse to let our tax dollars cement ICE’s inhumane deportation infrastructure for the next three years. Tell your senators and representative to vote no on $70 billion for ICE

THE LETTER
I am writing as your constituent to demand that you vote NO on the reconciliation bill that would provide $70 billion in new funding to ICE and Customs and Border Patrol with no reforms, no accountability provisions, and no new guardrails until after this administration leaves office.

We know what that money will buy. Right now, the Department of Homeland Security is buying warehouses across the heartland of this country, turning them into backyard detention centers that local communities have never consented to, and do not want. ICE has spent years expanding its capacity to abuse people’s rights and terrorize communities and this bill would cement that infrastructure for the next three years with a blank check and zero strings attached.

After dozens of deaths in ICE custody and too many incidents to count between ICE agents and American citizens, we deserve real reforms and protections from ICE and CBP violence.

Using budget reconciliation to bypass the Senate’s normal 60-vote threshold displays the reality of this situation – the American people do not want to continue expanding and supporting this deportation machine. I do not want my tax dollars to cement this deportation infrastructure for the next three years.

I urge you in the strongest possible terms to vote NO on this bill.

Thank you for your time,