John,

While Republicans in Congress are getting ready to cut more than $1 trillion in funding for Medicaid, SNAP, and other critical human needs programs, there’s one area that’s getting a major boost in funding: Trump’s deportation machine.

Budget proposals seek to increase ICE funding by tens of billions of dollars, including as much as $45 billion for ICE detention centers—a 600% increase.¹

We cannot keep pouring our tax dollars into an inhumane system that seeks to tear apart families and communities.

Send a direct message to Congress, urging them to block the mass deportation budget, which they’re paying for through cuts to critical human needs.

ICE is breaking our due process laws, illegally arresting and deporting residents with legal status, denying U.S. residents their right to an attorney and their day in court. To ensure accountability in the agency, ICE was designed to be led by a Senate-confirmed director. But ICE Director Todd Lyons is taking extreme and unconstitutional actions as ‘acting’ director, without even being formally nominated for the role.

This is a way to abuse the law and amass unchecked power in the hands of a dictatorial executive branch. Already, we’ve seen how far the Trump administration’s lawlessness is willing to go. They have brazenly flouted judicial orders to stop deportations without due process. And in April, his administration orchestrated ICE’s public arrest of a sitting judge in Milwaukee―turning it into a media spectacle designed to intimidate the judiciary and break the system of checks and balances.²

This is nothing but authoritarianism and has no place in a democratic society.

Join us in calling on Congress to stop funding Trump’s deportation machine. Send a message demanding that Congress reject a budget that increases ICE funding while cutting funding for critical human needs.

Thank you for all you do,

Dominique Espinoza
Policy and Strategic Partnerships Manager, CHN Action

¹ Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
² Judge Hannah Dugan was cuffed, shackled and photographed. Former prosecutors say that's not normal