1. United States
2. Pa.
3. Letter

My name is Beth and I'm a Pittsburgh resident. I'm calling to urge you to 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) 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 and we need qualified, well-trained officers to enforce only immigration law — not rogue, unidentified agents detaining, assaulting, shooting, and murdering people. If DHS and ICE won't make these changes - and according to Secretary Noem, they won't — Congress needs to step up and use its power in the Constitution to reign in, change, defund, or abolish ICE. Thanks for reading and please do the right thing. Your voters are watching, I promise.