John,

Thanks to your activism, Congress has passed government funding bills without increasing funding for ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.

By February 13, Congress and the White House will negotiate a DHS funding bill and our demands have not changed: ICE and CBP agents should be withdrawn from our communities.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, require judicial warrants for arrests and prohibit other lawless enforcement operations, stop the use of force, end family and child detention, and provide no new contracts for private detention.

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

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

Any DHS and ICE funding bill must stop the violence and abuse. Measures that merely manage or legitimize harm are not what we need to meet this moment.

Now Congress must act. 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 enact meaningful legislation to rein in DHS now.

Congress must stop giving ICE and DHS handouts and assert its power of the purse.

Send a message to your Senators and Representative now and tell them: Not another dollar for ICE’s lawless attacks on our communities.

Thank you for all that you’re doing to demand justice and accountability.

Deborah Weinstein
Executive Director, CHN Action

¹ ICE detains 4 Minnesota students, including 5-year-old, school district says