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Stop Funding ICE: Stop the Homeland Security Appropriations Bill

To: Sen. Durbin, Sen. Duckworth

From: A verified voter in Batavia, IL

January 17

Please stop in any way possible, including using the filibuster, the upcoming Homeland Security appropriations bill unless • There are significant changes to how ICE operates, so they aren’t behaving like lawless thugs • ICE’s funding bump from the One Big Beautiful Bill is erased and returned to last year’s levels of $10B annually (down from the larger $37.5B) • ICE is completely defunded and operations are paused until the agency can be vetted/reformed • ICE is shut down entirely I’m sick of watching lawful citizens and noncitizens being arrested at their jobs, assaulted at peaceful protests, pulled out of their vehicles, blinded by munitions, and getting shot and killed. It’s un-American. We need qualified, well-trained officers to enforce only immigration law — not rogue, unidentified agents detaining, assaulting, shooting, and murdering people. Congress needs to step up and use its power in the Constitution to rein in ICE. Please stop ICE from acting in the above un-American and horrific ways! Thank you.

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