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Congress is moving to hand ICE and Border Patrol $70 billion in new funding with no reforms, no accountability, and no new guardrails until after Donald Trump is out of office.

We know what that money will buy. More detention warehouses. More black sites detention camps. All so that more families — more of our neighbors — will disappear into a system with no transparency and no oversight.

ICE has spent years expanding its capacity to terrorize communities, abuse people’s rights, and even kill American citizens in the process. Since Trump took office last year, more than 40 people have died in ICE custody, the most in such a short period of time.

This budget bill would cement that infrastructure for the next three years with a blank check and zero strings attached, possibly bringing a new ICE detention center to an old warehouse in your state.

House and Senate Republicans are using budget reconciliation to try and pass this bill, a procedural maneuver designed specifically to bypass Democratic opposition. They know how unpopular ICE is, which is why they’re trying to rush this through on a party-line vote.

We refuse to let our tax dollars cement ICE’s inhumane deportation infrastructure for the next three years.

Tell your senators and representative to vote no on $70 billion for ICE >>

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