Congress is back in session this week, and the biggest priority for Republicans and Trump is … to give billions more dollars to ICE and CBP.1
Last year, Republicans gave ICE and CBP $170 billion. Now, they want to give them the equivalent of three to ten years worth of funding with no restrictions on how they spend the money and no accountability. Just a slush fund — all in one go — to terrorize our communities.
We’ve secured political wins this year because we haven’t stopped organizing. Democrats are holding the line and remaining united in opposing more funding for ICE and Border Patrol until Republicans and Trump agree to meaningful restrictions. The Senate even unanimously passed a bipartisan bill to fund the rest of the Department of Homeland Security without funding ICE and CBP. Together, our movement made that possible.
Right now, your representative needs to hear from you: that you’re paying attention, that you oppose more ICE and CBP funding, that Democrats need to keep holding the line, and that Republicans need to break with their leadership.
ICE has caused immeasurable harm already this year and is on track to break 2025’s grim statistic as the deadliest year in decades.2 Our movement has the power to prevent billions more unrestricted dollars from flowing to them.
Thank you for being part of Jews Against ICE,
Eli Williams-Szenes
Director of Advocacy and Political Affairs, Bend the Arc
Sources:
1. GOP leaders prepare to steamroll opponents of DHS funding plan, Politico
2. Immigration detention on track for deadliest fiscal year since 2004, NPR
