The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been shut down for more than a month. Congress and the White House continue to debate whether to provide additional funding for DHS. Lawmakers need to hear their communities demand that ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) abuses end and real guardrails are immediately put in place.
These guardrails must include:
- Not one more dollar for lawless immigration enforcement. Congress must also claw back the $170 billion in additional funding for mass detentions and deportations that was passed in the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” last summer.
- Prohibiting immigration enforcement actions at sensitive locations like houses of worship, schools, hospitals, and courthouses.
- Ending warrantless arrests by masked agents.
- Ending family detention and immigration detention expansion.
Use our tool below to urge your two Senators and one Representative to oppose new ICE and CBP funding and enact policies that end the immigration enforcement chaos happening in our communities.
EMAIL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
See sample email below.
Sample Email:
My name is [insert name], and as your constituent from [City/Town] and a [person of faith/refugee/member of community], I am writing to express deep concern over the lawless immigration enforcement operations taking place around the country and in [our State].
ICE and CBP are instilling fear and creating chaos in our communities. Following the brutal killings of Keith Porter, Renee Nicole Good, Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, and Alex Pretti – we have continued to see escalating raids, the ongoing detention of families, and the renewed targeting of resettled refugees. We cannot allow these agencies’ budgets to continue growing and for their agents to continue wreaking havoc in our communities with impunity.
Specifically, I urge you to support the following guardrails against lawless immigration enforcement in any renegotiated DHS spending bill:
- Not one more dollar for lawless immigration enforcement, and rescissions of the $170 billion in additional funding for mass detentions and deportations that was passed in the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” last summer.
- Codifying guidance for safety at places of worship, schools, and hospitals (as provided by the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act, S. 455 and H.R. 1061). The rescission of the protected areas guidance in January 2025 has allowed numerous arrests to occur at places of worship and other sensitive areas. The threat of immigration enforcement incursions on houses of worship restricts religious freedom and creates fear within faith communities, discouraging participation in essential religious services and limiting community members’ access to vital resources.
- Ending family detention and immigration detention expansion.
- Ending warrantless arrests by masked agents and halting enforcement actions based on profiling (sometimes called “Kavanaugh Stops”).
These reforms are necessary to protect our communities from DHS’s intensifying and harmful operations.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
[Your name]
CALL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS
See a sample script below.
Phone Script:
My name is [insert name], and as your constituent from [City/Town], I am calling to express deep concern over the lawless immigration enforcement operations going on around the country and in our community.
I urge you to support the following guardrails against lawless immigration enforcement in any renegotiated DHS spending bill:
- Not one more dollar for lawless immigration enforcement.
- Codify guidance for safety at places of worship, schools, and hospitals (as provided by the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act, S. 455 and H.R. 1061).
- Prohibit operations like “Operation PARRIS” that directly target resettled refugees.
- End family detention and immigration detention expansion.
- End warrantless arrests by masked agents and halt enforcement actions based on profiling.
These reforms are necessary to protect our communities from DHS’s intensifying and harmful operations.
Thank you.
AMPLIFY ON SOCIAL MEDIA
See sample posts below.
@[legislator] It is time that we hold ICE and CBP accountable for their actions. We must pass meaningful, legislative guardrails on ICE and CBP abuses.
@[legislator] Allowing ICE to operate without any oversight or accountability is a threat to our safety and community. Hold them accountable by rejecting any increase in #DHSgovfunding!
@[legislator] ICE is creating chaos and unleashing violence in our cities and communities. Keep our communities safe by rejecting ICE and CBP funding and passing legislative guardrails!