1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Cut the extreme funding Congress handed ICE and CBP over the last two years, hold agents accountable for excessive force, civil rights violations, and abuses in detention, and end the mass deportation agenda that is actively destroying this country's economic foundation. The data is in, and it is damning. A new report from Economic Insights and Research Consulting found that Trump's immigration crackdown has already driven food prices sharply higher: fresh milk up 5.7%, canned vegetables up 6.3%, apples up 7.2%. Housing permit issuance has dropped 10.6% nationwide and new home costs have surged nearly $33,000 in a single year due to a shortage of skilled workers. Consequently, native-born construction workers also lost an estimated 51,000 to 297,000 jobs by September 2025 alone. If this continues, seniors face an average $2,152 annual cut to their Social Security benefits by 2034 — an 8.6% reduction — because the administration is gutting the very workforce that funds those payments. This is not abstract policy debate. Families are paying more for groceries, can't afford homes, and are watching their retirement security evaporate — all while ICE and CBP agents shoot into vehicles carrying children and abduct people pursuing legal immigration pathways. Congress has the power to claw back this funding and demand accountability. Use it.