Stop ICE funding in FY26 Appropriations (after Alex Pretti)

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Tell the Senate:

Oppose Funding for ICE and CBP in FY2026 DHS Bill

Congress continues to consider additional funding for ICE and CBP as it negotiates the government spending bill ahead of its January 30th deadline. This, despite the recent killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

Just last week, the House passed its bill; now negotiations shift to the Senate. The Senate should not make the mistake of the House. The upper chamber should not give ICE and CBP more funds while they continue to invade, terrorize, and kill. We must demand limits, accountability, and a cessation to the hostility and violence.

The killing of both Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis is not an isolated tragedy, but part of a clear pattern of callous and inhumane disregard of life and law. Both Alex and Renée were killed by the many hands of federal systems of oppression, not only by the hands of ICE or CBP officers. Americans have the right to observe, monitor, record, fact-check, and object to government activity under the First Amendment as a form of constitutionally protected free speech and assembly.

A reckless disregard for human life characterizes the administration’s aggressive attacks on immigrants and their allies, their neighbors.
Detention with ICE has become more deadly than in recent decades.
Across the U.S., people have been hurt or killed during close-proximity interactions with ICE, whether during raids or traffic stops, civil monitoring, or detention.
Secretary Noem (Kristi Lynn Arnold Noem) and ICE Acting Director Lyons (Todd M. Lyons) must be held accountable.

Congress must stop negotiations on the FY2026 Department of Homeland Security funding bill until diligent, responsible investigations are conducted.

Email your Senators: We, the people, object. We raise our voices together. They must act on our behalf.

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

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Tell the Senate:

Oppose Funding for ICE and CBP in FY2026 DHS Bill

Congress continues to consider additional funding for ICE and CBP as it negotiates the government spending bill ahead of its January 30th deadline. This, despite the recent killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti.

Just last week, the House passed its bill; now negotiations shift to the Senate. The Senate should not make the mistake of the House. The upper chamber should not give ICE and CBP more funds while they continue to invade, terrorize, and kill.

The killing of both Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE and CBP agents in Minneapolis is not an isolated tragedy, but part of a clear pattern of callous and inhumane disregard of life and law. Americans have the right to observe, monitor, record, fact-check, and object to government activity under the First Amendment as a form of constitutionally protected free speech and assembly.

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

ICE Funding Senate

Subject: Pause FY2026 DHS appropriations, no funds for ICE and CBP

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I am writing as your constituent and as someone motivated by faith and moral conscience, urging you to remove the DHS bill from the broader package. Oppose additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Pause negotiations on the FY2026 DHS appropriations. ICE and CBP are out of control with violence. The reckless disregard for the law, especially protections under the Constitution, must stop. Please act with caution and prudence where the House failed. At a minimum, I ask you to ensure that no funding continues for ICE and CBP without meaningful investigation and imposition of guardrails. The killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti by CBP agents after the killing of Renée Good by ICE agents requires a thorough investigation before any additional funding should be granted to ICE or CBP in the current bill. I am also concerned about reporting on the inhumane and deadly conditions in ICE detention facilities. The people who have died in custody merit congressional attention. I therefore oppose funding for additional detention beds in the FY2026 DHS appropriations bill and ask you to block ICE and CBP from receiving funds to expand that system. To me, that means you should: - Refuse to increase funding for ICE or CBP - Decline to authorize additional funds for detention - Reinforce restrictions on ICE and CBP dragnet activity - Oppose targeting people based on their race, language, or accent - Restrict targeting based on place of employment, or location at the time of the apprehension - End ICE and CBP deployment to our communities, especially Operation Metro Surge and related offshoots - Reject the mission creep in immigration enforcement - Limit reprogramming and transfer authority at DHS Congress gave DHS, ICE, and CBP billions of dollars through the 2025 reconciliation package, paving the way for a multi-year expansion of immigration enforcement and detention. That funding has not improved community safety or accountability. Instead, ICE and CBP are acting with greater impunity, killing people with frequency. Please remove the DHS bill from the broader FY2026 appropriations package. Pause negotiations for DHS pending investigations of ICE and CBP. Thank you for your service and leadership.

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