Congress, it’s time to Defund, Dismantle, and Abolish ICE.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have seized our streets, invaded our workspaces, and traumatized our young during school hours. These agencies’ capacity and power to inflict violence have only expanded year after year, as Congress keeps dumping billions of taxpayer dollars into immigration enforcement, placing ICE’s budget higher than that of CBP.

Since its inception in 2003, ICE has brutalized and surveilled our communities. Now, with full backing from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and record funding from the Trump administration — making ICE’s budget larger than any other federal agency — ICE is acting without impunity.

This is why the agency must go!

But coming together to defund, dismantle, and abolish ICE will require a shared vision and collective action to get Congress to act now.

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Roadmap to Abolishing ICE

  • Congress allocates billions of taxpayer dollars to allow immigration enforcement agents to surveil, harass, intimidate, and brutalize people across the country. Congress should divest from ICE’s campaign of terror and instead invest in the well-being of our communities.

    ICE cannot be reformed. Restricting or conditioning ICE funding on training or procedural adjustments is not enough. Maintaining current funding for ICE will only allow the agency to continue to terrorize people and wage attacks on our rights. Congress must claw back resources and defund the agency to truly hold it accountable.

  • The mechanisms that enable federal agents to surveil and harm our communities must be dismantled, from the local level to the federal level. That includes dismantling the network of detention centers and the surveillance apparatus embedded within our local communities.

    Replacing officials at DHS and/or ICE will not change immigration enforcement agencies’ capacity or authority to inflict violence. Congress must erode and repeal the excessively broad powers it has granted to immigration enforcement authorities, such as those expanded via the Laken Riley Act.

  • Since its inception, ICE was built to inflict the very violence we are witnessing today. Ultimately, efforts to erode ICE’s resources and powers are only steps towards the primary goal of eliminating the agency entirely.

    We echo the call that immigrant rights organizers have been saying for years: Congress must abolish ICE.

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