1. United States
2. Mo.
3. Letter

Vote NO on any bill that funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and do everything in your power to create paths to citizenship for all immigrants. ICE now has an $85 billion budget, the most of any law enforcement agency in our country’s history. That money is being used to terrorize our communities. At least 32 people have died in ICE custody over the past year, making deaths in ICE custody the highest in decades. You are complicit. All U.S. residents, including citizens, are also in danger. Renée Nicole Good, a mother of three, was shot and killed by an ICE agent after dropping her son at school. You are complicit. She is but one of multiple Americans now shot dead by ICE and CBP agents. Videos show ICE agents dragging mothers from their cars, shoving women to the ground in front of their children, yanking a pregnant woman through the snow away from her nursing baby, and making schools sites of trauma. You are complicit. The cruelty and scale of the violence is inherently anti-family and anti-American. I am horrified at the idea of my tax dollars funding such lawless and violent agencies. Also, do everything in your power to expand paths to citizenship for all immigrants. Doing so is not separate from stopping ICE violence — it's how we actually stop it for good. When millions of people live without legal status, it creates the perfect conditions for abuse and violence. And that violence clearly doesn’t just impact those without legal status, but all Americans. Real change means bringing people fully into our democracy. Robust, humanized pathways to citizenship would strengthen all of us: better wages, and a stronger economy. Vote NO on any bill that funds ICE, and do everything in your power to expand a pathway to citizenship for all immigrants.