Hi John,
At the end of January, ICE will be defunded unless your reps vote to give them more money. We don't think they should get more—especially not to build a surveillance panopticon with warrantless spying on everybody in the US.
You see, they don't just want us to be afraid of them in the streets. They want us to be afraid of them every time we unlock our phones or walk past an Amazon Ring doorbell.
Last week, we launched a tool for you to email your reps and now we've escalated with a call tool. Can you call now and demand your reps vote NO on any funding bill that includes money for ICE?
You can call +1 813-213-3989 directly, or go to our page to have us call you and see a script of what to say.
STOP ICE SURVEILLANCE
Right now, ICE is operating with a massive $170 billion budget,1 pouring much of that into dangerous tech that helps them hunt our neighbors with terrifying precision, including phone surveillance dragnets, AI-powered drones, face scanning apps, license plate and biometric databases, and more.2
Congress has a clear path to stop ICE surveillance in its tracks and reject the executions of Renee Good, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, and Keith Porter, as well as the countless others killed by ICE since its inception. Federal lawmakers need to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) until its ICE agency is abolished.
If we can choke off the funding for this invasive, murderous, and dehumanizing agency, we give our communities critical breathing room to resist deportations and fight to stop ICE for good.
Please take action today and share this as much as you can:
TAKE ACTION
Make yourself heard, this is one of our best shots!
Lia at Fight for the Future
P.S. To get further plugged into the fight with our friends in the immigration justice movement, check out the vital work of CASA3 and Detention Watch4 and peruse the excellent “Block It!” toolkit from Interrupting Criminalization.5
