No More Money for ICE Terror
Congress must reject Trump’s ICE slush fund and stop handing billions more to agencies already flooded with money while families struggle to survive.
Stop the $70 Billion ICE Power Grab
Friends,
There is no mystery about what this ICE funding bill currently in Congress is. It is not about public safety. It is not about affordability. It is not about solving a crisis. It is a slush fund for ICE and Border Patrol, wrapped in fear, rushed through Congress, and designed to hand Donald Trump’s deportation machine another blank check.
Congress is being asked to pour roughly $70 billion more into ICE and CBP through a partisan funding package, even after those agencies received massive funding last year. Senate Budget Committee Democrats say ICE and CBP were still sitting on more than $103 billion in unobligated funding as of March 2026.1
So let’s be clear: there is no funding emergency. There is only a cruelty agenda looking for more cash.
Families are struggling with groceries, gas, rent, healthcare, childcare, and prescription drugs. People are asking Washington to lower costs and protect communities. Instead, Republicans are trying to hand billions more to agencies already swollen with unspent money. Worse, this package was tied to a $1 billion White House security proposal connected to Trump’s ballroom project, which the Senate parliamentarian ruled could not be included in the fast-track bill. 2
That tells us everything we need to know. Working families are told to tighten their belts. Seniors are told programs cost too much. Disabled people are told there is no money. Families on Medicaid are told they must wait, prove, struggle, and suffer. But when Trump wants billions for ICE, Border Patrol, and a palace-like ballroom project, suddenly the money appears.
That is not governing. That is looting.
And every lawmaker who votes for this owns what comes next. Every raid. Every wrongful detention. Every child who comes home to an empty house. Every parent disappeared into a detention system. Every community terrorized by masked agents. Every taxpayer dollar sent into a system with too little transparency and too little accountability. This vote is not symbolic. It is the legislative rubber stamp for what follows.
The public is not confused. A UMass Amherst poll found only 33% of Americans approved of how ICE is doing its job, while 59% disapproved.3 Half of respondents also believed ICE officers are not adequately trained for immigration enforcement. That is not a mandate for more money. That is a warning siren.
This bill also makes life more expensive. FWD.us found Trump’s immigration policies could raise costs for the average American family by $2,150 per year, and projected grocery bills could rise from $165 to $195 per week within four years.4 Mass deportation is not just morally cruel. It destabilizes construction, agriculture, food service, caregiving, and local economies. It rips workers out of communities and then forces everyone else to pay more.
Republicans cannot claim they care about affordability while funding policies that raise prices. They cannot claim they care about families while financing family separation. They cannot claim they care about public safety while writing blank checks to agencies facing deep public distrust.
Congress must reject this bill.
Not one more dollar for raids while families cannot afford groceries. Not one more dollar for detention expansion while people lose healthcare. Not one more dollar for political theater while communities live under fear. Not one more dollar for a deportation machine that already has more than enough money to do harm.
Stop ICE’s slush fund. Stop the blank check. Stop funding cruelty in our name.
Take action now: Tell Congress: No Slush Fund for ICE
Take action: Send a letter to Congress: No Blank Checks for ICE
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Take action now: Tell Congress: No Slush Fund for ICE
Take action: Tell Congress: No Blank Checks for ICE
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Trump’s ICE hoodlums are making money off of murdering US citizens and innocent immigrants also!!! 😡
ICE IS UNAMERICAN!
John Hudanish