ICE Out! No DHS funding. No more attacks on our communities; not immigrants or their allies!

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Tell the House:

ICE Out! No DHS funding!

No more attacks on our communities; not immigrants or their allies!

This is a pivotal moment. We’ve said it's the fight of our generation.

The people of Minnesota and the community in Minneapolis have shown the way forward: putting aside minor conflicts and differences to address the common moral crisis. Responding with presence, solidarity, mutual aid, and peaceful, even if boisterous, neighborly defense. Sharing acts of both mundane and bold character by everyday people.

With their movement, Minnesota has earned national attention in its demand for justice after the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the kidnapping of abduction of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos (BBC).

Minnesota has named this an invasion, they say-- ICE Out! Others have helped call attention to this matter and its implications:

The locals are not just outraged but also mobilizing, and organizing, demanding that lawmakers respond.

We must do our part: amplify their call, make that demand our own call nationwide. The federal agencies involved do not need more funding; instead, their overwhelming use of force must be outmatched by oversight and civilian control. The ofiicers and superiors responsible must be held to account.

Email your Representative in the House today, as they resume negotiations in reply to the Senate’s vote last week. Say ICE Out! No more DHS funding. No more attacks on our communities; not immigrants or their allies!

The demands have been clear:

ICE Out! ICE and CBP agents need to be withdrawn from our communities.
Full Congressional investigations must be had.
Any DHS funding bill passed must impose accountability.
ICE and CBP enforcement at sensitive locations must stop.
Warrantless arrests must be prohibited.
The reckless, often lawless, use of force must end.
Family and child detention must end.
Halt all new contracts for private detention.
Stop the continued expansion of holding capacity.

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Context:
Last week, the Senate passed funding bills for human needs programs and other expenditures, while separating Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding under a two-week Continuing Resolution (CR). That DHS bill includes funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Now the legislation returns to the House, where the fight over DHS, ICE, and CBP funding will resume. We must raise a righteous ruckus to urge Congress to impose better oversight and accountability and to constrain the reckless and lawless activity.

With OBBBA, Congress gave DHS billions of dollars in multiyear funding. This came at the expense of human needs programs, especially Medicaid, SNAP, and the Affordable Care Act. OBBBA has robbed average Americans to detain and deport our neighbors, while enriching various corporate actors and the billionaire oligarchic players.

DHS, ICE, and CBP do not need more money. Instead, Congress should be clawing back billions of dollars, which have supercharged their enforcement capacity and, in turn, unleashed terror on our communities.

Tell the House: ICE Out! No more DHS funding. No more attacks on our communities; not immigrants or their allies!

UU Grounding

As of General Assembly 2024, as Unitarian Universalists, we have agreed to “adopt new language on core religious values.” We agree love is the power that holds us together and is at the center of our shared values. The values we share include all the following, which we hold as inseparable and deeply interconnected: Interdependence, Pluralism, Justice, Transformation, Generosity, and Equity. (Read more on the Article II revision process.)

With these agreed core religious values in mind, we also ground our call to preserve easy access to the vote in support of immigration justice in the following Unitarian Universalist Statements:

Protect the Dreamers, the Recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) with a Pathway to Permanent Residence, 2023 Action of Immediate Witness
Undoing Systemic White Supremacy: A Call to Prophetic Action, 2021 Statement of Conscience
Protect the Rights of Immigrants and Asylum Seekers, 2019 Action of Immediate Witness
End Family Separation and Detention of Asylum Seekers and Abolish ICE, 2018 Action of Immediate Witness
Build Solidarity with our Muslim Neighbors, 2016 Action of Immediate Witness
End Immigrant Child and Family Detention Now, 2015 Action of Immediate Witness
Immigration as a Moral Issue, 2013 Statement of Conscience

Tell the House:

ICE Out! No DHS funding!

No more attacks on our communities; not immigrants or their allies!

This is a pivotal moment. We’ve said it's the fight of our generation. The people of Minnesota and the Minneapolis community have shown the way forward. With this movement, Minnesota has earned national attention in its demand for justice.

Email your Representative in the House today, as they resume negotiations in reply to the Senate’s vote last week. The federal agencies involved do not need more funding; instead, their overwhelming use of force must be outmatched by oversight and civilian control.

Sign now to send a message to your elected representatives to demonstrate courage in this dire moment. You'll be able to customize your email to Congress on the next screen.

DHS Funding House

Subject: Vote NO on more ICE and CBP funding; say yes to oversight and accountability

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As your constituent and a person motivated by faith and moral conscience, I urge you to reject increased funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), or Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Their intrusion into our communities is intolerable, their violence unforgivable, and their lawlessness unacceptable. I find their entire set of activities morally bankrupt. Therefore, I urge you to: - Withhold votes on any DHS funding unless the administration commits to removing ICE and CBP deployments from our communities. - Block votes until Congress conducts a robust investigation into the enforcement practices, use of force, and civil rights violations. When that threshold is met: - Significantly reduce ICE and CBP funding; yes, claw-back funds allocated under OBBBA. - Advance policy provisions that stop the violence and abuse by ICE and CBP. - Eshue measures like body-worn cameras, more training, or provisions that reinforce the existing circumstances. - Discontinue enforcement at sensitive and private locations, including hospitals, schools, houses of worship, community service sites, and public protests. - End family and child detention - Prohibit any new contracts with private detention companies. - Stop the warrantless arrests and require judicial warrants in all instances; yes, ban administrative warrants. - Ensure accountability among federal officers and their superiors, end qualified immunity. Renee God and Alex Pretti were executed by federal agents in full view of the public. ICE and CBP are operating like paramilitary forces, some say secret police; we are beyond granting any benefit of the doubt. They are causing chaos and harm in our communities. Now is the time for rigorous investigation, oversight, and exertion of civilian control. This is a moral and political crisis. Kids are being traumatized, and Americans are being racially profiled. It is a challenge to civilian control and a violation of Fourth Amendment rights. An increasing majority of Americans believe that ICE and CBP tactics have gone too far and want them constrained and contained. And I agree. In deference to that sentiment, please reject any more funding for DHS/ICE and impose the needed oversight and accountability. ICE and CBP are out of control. Vote no on their funding.

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