1. United States
2. Wash.
3. Letter

I am writing as your constituent regarding the February 13 DHS funding vote. Recent revelations about ICE's systematic circumvention of due process make my position clear. ICE cannot be reformed. It must be defunded and abolished. Vote NO. Federal judges across the country are documenting a deliberate pattern: ICE shuttles detainees between facilities, rebooking them under new identification numbers to circumvent legal detention limits. Attorneys cannot find their clients. Family members cannot locate their loved ones. The detainee locator system shows people as "not in custody" while they remain detained. People are literally disappearing into a system designed to deny them due process. This is not an accident. This is the design. Body cameras and identification numbers will not fix a system engineered to make people untraceable. Judicial warrants cannot protect people who vanish from all tracking systems. These reforms assume good faith. ICE operates in deliberate bad faith. Federal judges have found that ICE violated nearly 100 court orders in January alone and compared the agency's actions to those of "a third-world entity." Meanwhile, 92% of ICE's detention growth has been people with no criminal convictions. The agency is arresting restaurant workers and farmhands, then making them disappear from every tracking system designed to ensure due process. This is what you fund when you vote to fund DHS. Seven days remain until February 13. I expect each of you to vote NO on any DHS funding legislation.