Tell Congress: Rein In ICE and Use our Tax Dollars for Healthcare and Not
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Dear Friend,
Renee Nicole Good should be alive today, and we are grieving her loss.
She was a mother in Minneapolis whose life was taken by an ICE officer
just blocks from where she lived, a parent to her six-year-old, a wife, a
poet, and someone known for her kindness. [ [link removed] ]
In the aftermath of this violence, small details carry enormous weight.
The sight of toys inside her glove compartment tells a painful truth about
the life she was nurturing and the family she was protecting. Our hearts
are with her family, especially her child, who should never have had to
carry this grief.
[1]Enough is enough. Tell Congress to exert real oversight, demand a full
investigation, including the release of all information, including the
body camera footage from federal agents, and to stop cutting our
healthcare and other programs for families in order to fund the growing
lawlessness of ICE.
This tragedy did not happen in isolation. It is the foreseeable result of
deliberate policy choices by Trump and Republican leaders in Congress
designed to sow fear and division. Granting the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security massive funding and unchecked authority, without
meaningful oversight, as Trump and Republican leaders in Congress have
done; made this outcome not only possible, but predictable.
In recent weeks, human rights abuses in the name of enforcement actions in
Minneapolis have sharply escalated, with immigrant communities,
particularly Somali families, bearing the brunt. [ [link removed] ] In this context, the
administration announced the deployment of roughly 2,000 ICE agents to
carry out what it called the “largest immigration operation ever” in the
state. [ [link removed] ] This show of force was unnecessary, cruel, and destabilizing.
The killing of Renee Good, a U.S. citizen, is a devastating consequence of
this escalation.
[2]Take action! Congress must rein in ICE through real oversight and stop
diverting critical healthcare resources to fund an agency operating
without accountability. This is not what America's moms want.
The Administration has already directed $45 billion to ICE to expand
immigration detention over the next four years through the 2025 budget
reconciliation bill, fueling widespread due process violations, deadlier
practices, inhumane conditions, and terrifying communities. Now some
Members of Congress are trying to give even more of our tax dollars to ICE
in the FY26 funding bill while also arguing that there is not enough money
to extend tax credits that help over 20 million families buy health
insurance. This is not the priority of America’s moms and families.
Instead of funding lawlessness and cruelty, moms across this country want
Congress to invest in what actually keeps communities safe: childcare,
healthcare, housing, and access to healthy food.
And as we grieve for Renee, we grieve for the countless others this
administration has terrified, injured, abducted, and traumatized in ICE
custody. The reality is stark: 2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two
decades. [ [link removed] ]
American moms know this truth: Safety does not come from terrifying
families. It’s built through care, dignity, and accountability. [3]Join us
to call on Congress to exert real oversight, demand a full investigation,
including the release of all information, including the body camera
footage from federal agents, and to stop cutting our healthcare and other
programs for families in order to fund the growing lawlessness of ICE.
Our nation needs a safe and orderly immigration process that balances
compassion and security, not cuts to healthcare and not cruelty and
violence.
To everyone who is showing support for your immigrant neighbors and for
your communities: thank you. As a mother and as an immigrant, these
moments feel heavy and unsettling, but we keep going by looking to the
helpers. As Mr. Rogers reminded us, “Always look for the helpers. And you
will always find people who are helping.”
Thank you for being among the helpers, the leaders, and the community we
need right now.
Linda, Xochitl, Jenny, Catalina, Felicia, Donna, Kristin, and the whole
MomsRising team.
References:
[1] [4]‘Poet, writer, wife, mom’: who was Renee Nicole Macklin Good, the
woman killed by an ICE agent?, The Guardian
[2] [ [link removed] ]Minnesota Somali community bears brunt of Trump administration
policies, NPR
[3] [ [link removed] ]2,000 federal agents sent to Minneapolis area to carry out 'largest
immigration operation ever,' ICE says, PBS
[4] [ [link removed] ]2025 was ICE’s deadliest year in two decades. Here are the 32
people who died in custody, The Guardian
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