Across the country, Americans want Congress to spend our tax dollars on programs that deliver what we need to thrive -- affordable health care, housing, food, and more. Yet, some lawmakers are trying to pass a budget reconciliation package that hands ICE and CBP even more money for their cruel and inhumane actions in our neighborhoods.  

We are in the middle of an affordability crisis. Working families and seniors are barely getting by as the cost of health care, food, gas, and electricity rise at a record pace. Instead of working to lower the cost of everyday essentials, some lawmakers have unveiled a plan to fast-track as much as $70 billion to ICE and CBP – on top of the $170 billion they already gave for immigration detention and deportation last year - with no accountability and no commonsense reforms attached.  

Let’s be perfectly clear: ICE and CBP have an enormous budget now and they are using this money to terrorize our communities. For months, ICE and CBP have been cruelly separating families, detaining children and babies, making arrests on or near school grounds, illegally entering homes, and even killing U.S. citizens in our streets. Roughly 50 people have died in immigration custody since January 2025 – the most in recorded history.

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