John,

The House returns to session today, which means they’ll begin to vote on the appropriations bills passed in the Senate last week. The fight over DHS funding is far from over.

Over the summer, via the Big Brutal Bill, Congress gave ICE tens of billions of dollars in multiyear funding. This came at the expense of human needs programs, specifically Medicaid, SNAP, and the Affordable Care Act.

DHS/ICE/CBP do not need more money. Instead, Congress should be rolling back the tens of billions of dollars handed over to ICE, which is powering their terror on our communities.

We’re calling on the House to reject increased funding to DHS and ICE. Instead we want immigration agents removed from our communities and we demand Congressional investigations into the terror ICE has caused.

Send a message to your Representative today. Tell them to reject ICE funding.

Body worn cameras and training are woefully inadequate and raise serious privacy and civil liberties concerns, and are simply not enough to meet the moment. The only acceptable resolution are policies that ensure the violence and detainment of people―including children―will stop.[1]

ICE’s tactics are deeply unpopular. According to recent polling, 58% of Americans say that ICE’s tactics are too forceful and about 48% strongly disapprove of ICE altogether.[2]

Both ICE and CBP must stop the violence they cause in our communities in Minnesota and across the country. Federal agents must completely and immediately leave Minnesota, and the practice of sending surge operations to cities and communities must end.

Tell your Representative: Stop the terror in our communities. Stop funding DHS and ICE.

Thank you for all you do,

Dominique Espinoza
Policy and Strategic Partnerships Manager, CHN Action

¹ ICE detains 4 Minnesota students, including 5-year-old, school district says
²Today more Americans support than oppose abolishing ICE

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John,

The Senate has passed funding bills related to human needs programs, while separating the funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which includes funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Now the legislation goes back to the House, where the fight over funding DHS/ICE/CBP will continue.

We are in a defining moment. Thanks to the bravery of the people of Minnesota, the local media, and the support of organizations demanding justice after the murders of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, the public is not just outraged, but mobilized, demanding lawmakers act now.

Our demands are clear: ICE and CBP agents should be withdrawn from our communities. Any DHS funding bill passed must require full Congressional investigations, stop ICE and CBP enforcement at sensitive locations, prohibit warrantless arrests and other lawless enforcement operations, stop the use of force, end family and child detention, and provide no new contracts for private detention.

Anything less simply does not meet the moment and would only bring more terror to our communities.

Send a message to your Representative today demanding that they reject the DHS funding bill.

Congress must stop giving ICE and DHS handouts and assert its power of the purse. The money proposed for Fiscal Year 2026 is not insignificant: $10 billion for ICE on top of the tens of billions of dollars they got last summer and another $18 billion for CBP on top of the $64 billion they already received. Further, the amounts provided in a Fiscal Year 2026 bill will be the baseline for negotiations in years to come.

The rights of the most vulnerable in our society are being trampled and violated. But as we’re seeing on the streets of Minneapolis and across the nation, no one is safe. Under this administration, we have seen ICE and other immigration officers engage in xenophobia, racially profile people, and, in the cases of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, murder them in the streets in public view.

No amount of training can fix this. Congress must stop funding ICE’s violent attacks on our communities and stop their relentless efforts to build more detention centers.

Call on your Representative to reject any legislation that increases DHS/ICE/CBP funding.

Thank you for all you do,

Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, CHN Action