TELL CONGRESS: NO MORE MONEY FOR DESTRUCTION AND DEATH

WHY do we keep calling when everyone says ‘They don’t listen!’.

Movements happen in waves. It’s like conducting an orchestra. Ebb and flow, repeat, and build until the energy in the room is palpable – hearts racing. We all need to understand WE ARE THERE RIGHT NOW. This moment is CRITICAL. The phones need to start RINGING by the tens of thousands TONIGHT! TOMORROW! Keep calling until this vote goes to the floor in the Senate.

The more of us joined together and raising our voices in a united message – the more we will SHAKE THE RESOLVE of those who have folded under Trump. They have GOT to see that the American people have more power than our corrupt president and his billionaire sycophants.

OUR DEMANDS

Alex Pretti and Renee Good’s killings are part of a broader pattern of unchecked violence, impunity, and abuse carried out by federal immigration enforcement agencies against our communities.

Congress must refuse to fund ICE and Border Patrol without serious reforms. Every MoC should publicly oppose the DHS appropriations bill unless it:

• Strengthens restrictions on ICE and Border Patrol’s ability to conduct dragnet arrest operations and target people based on their race, language or accent, place of employment, or location at the time of the apprehension. These agencies have secretively created a mass surveillance apparatus that uses dragnet techniques to forcibly collect and track biometric data on American citizens and immigrants alike without any legislative, judicial, or public oversight.
• Ends Border Patrol deployment to our cities and rejects its ever-expanding mandate in immigration enforcement. Trump’s DHS has been deploying Border Patrol in complex immigration enforcement campaigns in cities far from any border, harassing communities and refusing to communicate with local law enforcement. Trump treats Greg Bovino, the “Commander At Large,” like his personal secret police chief.
• Limits DHS’s reprogramming and transfer authority, including specifically preventing reprogramming and transferring funds for detention. This prohibits DHS from continuing to move money around to fuel ICE and Border Patrol lawlessness. We can’t trust that funds meant to be used for routine work like customs paperwork won’t be reallocated for dangerous detention centers or weapons of war used on our communities.
• Denies the Trump regime’s demands for increased DHS funding. ICE alone already hasa budget bigger than most countries’ militaries. No reforms, as necessary as they are, could justify funneling even more taxpayer dollars to Trump’s secret police and mass deportation machine.

We can’t wait around while ICE harms more people. Indivisible and our coalition partners demand that Congress must write a DHS appropriations bill that puts serious restrictions on ICE, ends its dragnet raids, and doesn’t add a penny to its already bloated budget.