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    Block funding for ICE now!

    Petition to Congress:
    We urge you to vote against DHS funding in order to stop fueling ICE and Border Patrol violence across the country.

    As Congress took a stand and let funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expire on Friday, a deluge of new details came out about ICE’s frightening authoritarian policies.

    ICE illegally arrested people more than 4,400 times in under five months.1 A DHS plan said the agency intends to spend $38 billion on new ICE detention centers — including giant warehouse prisons.2 ICE has sent hundreds of subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta demanding personal information on social media accounts that monitor and oppose ICE’s heinous actions.3

    ICE is rapidly expanding its lawless arrest, detention, and deportation program. Congress must deny DHS the resources it needs to continue ICE’s terror. Pressure will only build on lawmakers to end the partial DHS shutdown, but we must urge our lawmakers to oppose new funding.

    Sign the petition: No more funding for ICE!

    ICE is already imprisoning the most people it ever has, yet the agency’s $38 billion prison expansion plan includes at least eight new prisons that can each hold up to 10,000 people.4 This is a massive, unprecedented expansion of ICE’s abusive detention facilities.

    ICE is even leaning on Social Security employees and demanding access to information about when specific people have in-person appointments.5 ICE is collecting personal data across government agencies and corporations in order to continue its illegal arrests and deportations.

    Congress must continue to deny funding to this lawless agency carrying out Trump’s violent authoritarian takeover.

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

    Sources:

    1. Common Dreams, “Courts Have Ruled That ICE Illegally Jailed People More Than 4,400 Times in Less Than Five Months,” February 14, 2026.
    2. Reuters, “ICE to spend $38.3 billion on detention centers across US, document shows,” February 13, 2026.
    3. The New York Times, “Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts,” February 13, 2026.
    4. Reuters, “ICE to spend $38.3 billion on detention centers across US, document shows,” February 13, 2026.
    5. Common Dreams, “Social Security Agency Tells Workers to Give ICE Details About Beneficiary Appointments,” February 16, 2026.
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