ACLU Supporter –

By now we all know that ICE is out of control – and that it's been exploiting the budget process to get even more of our taxpayer money to abuse immigrants.

We have until Monday to stop Congress from fulfilling ICE's latest funding grab. Call Congress right now and demand they refuse to give ICE even more money.

Thanks for taking action,

Madhu

Hi ACLU Supporter –

The Trump administration just announced regulations to undermine the decades-old Flores agreement, which provides critical protections for detained immigrant children. The goal? To jail more children and families for longer. Congress must not fund this.

Right now, Congress is reviewing ICE's latest plan to take even more taxpayer money to further expand detention and enforcement. We've seen this before: last year, ICE took FEMA funds during hurricane season so it could detain more immigrants than ever before. Now, ICE is at it again.

Read more about how ICE is abusing immigrants with impunity with unprecedented levels of funding – and what Congress can do about it.

Under the Trump administration, Homeland Security and its sub-agencies, ICE and CBP, have been out of control due largely to their budgets – the largest ever – and the poisonous anti-immigrant rhetoric coming out of the White House every day.

The result? Inhumane detention. Continued family separation. Raids in neighborhoods and workplaces across the country. A laundry list of reasons ICE does NOT deserve more funding.

But the Constitution gives Congress "the power of the purse" – the ability to set the budgets of federal agencies. That means Congress must review ICE's latest plan to take funds from other agencies – and Congressional appropriators have until August 26 to reject ICE's transfer.

Get the full rundown of how Congress can exercise checks and balances to stop ICE's brazen funding grab in its tracks.

With children still in cages, cruel immigration raids across the country, and squalid conditions in detention sites – it's clear that ICE does not deserve this budget hike.

Thanks for taking action,

Madhuri Grewal
ACLU Federal Immigration Policy Counsel