TELL CONGRESS: A new DHS funding bill needs to pass this week or the agency will shut down. Trump is asking for millions more for lawless ICE raids and mega detention centers. Congress must say NO to more taxpayer dollars for Trump’s far-right security forces. Sign the petition: Block funding for ICE!

ICE is a lawless agency carrying out Trump’s violent authoritarian takeover. Congress must end this assault on communities and the Constitution by rejecting billions in additional funding for ICE.

Trump’s immigration authorities are trying to quickly deport 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos after ICE kidnapped Liam and his father in Minnesota and imprisoned them in Texas.1 ICE nearly beat Alberto Castañeda Mondragón to death in St. Paul late last month while he was handcuffed.2 These are just two of the countless horrific stories of ICE’s vicious brutality. There will only be more if Congress fails to take a stand.

Our lawmakers need to feel pressure from their constituents to stop ICE before votes this week!

Sign the petition: Vote NO on new funding for ICE! No more taxpayer dollars for mass deportations.

Over 70,000 people are currently in ICE detention — the most ever. Tens of thousands of people are languishing in abusive prisons with unlivable conditions, including Alligator Alcatraz; Camp East Montana; and Dilley Immigration Processing Center, where Liam was sent with his father.3,4

And ICE is buying up warehouses to turn into mega-prisons for tens of thousands more people. DHS just purchased an old Big Lots distribution center in Pennsylvania to turn into a 7,500-bed prison, and paid $70 million for a building the size of 7 football fields in Phoenix for another detention center.5,6

Congress must cut off ICE’s funding and stop supporting the mass expansion of ICE’s arrests, detentions, and deportations.

Sign the petition: No more funding for lawless ICE raids and hellish immigrant prisons.

Thanks for taking action,

Joey and the Demand Progress team

Sources:

  1. Common Dreams, “Judge Denies DHS Bid to Quickly Deport Family of 5-Year-Old Liam Conejo Ramos,” February 7, 2026.
  2. Common Dreams, “‘There Was Never a Wall’: Man Beaten Nearly to Death by ICE Refutes Self-Harm Claim,” February 8, 2026.
  3. NBC News, “ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern,” February 5, 2026.
  4. Common Dreams, “Judge Denies DHS Bid to Quickly Deport Family of 5-Year-Old Liam Conejo Ramos,” February 7, 2026.
  5. CBS 21, “Petition started to stop planned Pennsylvania ICE 'Mega-Center' after DHS purchase,” February 9, 2026.
  6. NBC News, “ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern,” February 5, 2026.

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