1. United States
2. Ga.
3. Letter

I am writing as a constituent and taxpayer to place the federal government on notice. I withdraw my consent for my tax dollars to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE’s documented pattern of unlawful detention, medical neglect, family separation, and death in custody violates the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable seizures, the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments’ guarantees of due process, and the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. When people are detained without due process, denied medical care, and left to die in government custody, the Constitution is not being enforced. It is being defied. Taxation depends on legitimacy. Legitimacy depends on moral and constitutional authority. An agency that operates through coercion, brutality, and impunity possesses neither. Funding such an agency is not governance. It is compelled participation in violence. The First Amendment protects the right of the people to petition their government for redress of grievances. This letter is that petition, and it is not polite. I refuse to quietly comply while my labor is taken under threat of penalty and used to terrorize communities and end lives. Any claim that this system reflects the consent of the governed while ICE continues its abuses is false. Abolish ICE. End the violations. Or expect the people to withdraw their consent, financially and politically. I am watching. And history is watching too.