1. United States
2. N.Y.
3. Letter

I am writing to demand immediate action to stop the reported plan by the administration and the Department of Homeland Security to deploy ICE agents to airports across the United States. This is a dangerous escalation. It should alarm every member of Congress. Airports are among the most visible and heavily used public spaces in the country. Expanding immigration enforcement into these spaces is not a routine policy shift—it is a deliberate move to normalize aggressive, surveillance-driven enforcement in everyday civilian life. If allowed to proceed, this will fundamentally change what it means to travel in the United States. The likely consequences are clear: • Increased racial profiling and discriminatory targeting of travelers. • Arbitrary questioning, detention, and intimidation of U.S. citizens, lawful residents, and visitors. • A chilling effect on travel, particularly for immigrant communities and communities of color. • The erosion of basic expectations of privacy, mobility, and due process in public spaces. This is how civil liberties are gradually dismantled—not all at once, but through expansions of enforcement power into more and more areas of daily life. We have already seen a sharp escalation in immigration enforcement tactics in recent years. Bringing ICE into airports signals an intention to go further—to make these practices more visible, more routine, and more difficult to challenge. This is not about safety. It is about power. It also sends a message to the world that the United States is becoming a place where travel is conditioned on exposure to aggressive enforcement and potential detention. That has real consequences—for tourism, for business, and for the country’s global standing. Congress cannot be passive in the face of this. I urge you to: • Publicly and unequivocally oppose any deployment of ICE agents to airports. - Demand immediate transparency from DHS regarding the scope, legal authority, and operational plans for this proposal. • Call for an immediate halt to any implementation of this policy. • Push for strict legal limits on immigration enforcement activities in public-facing civilian spaces. • Conduct oversight hearings to investigate the expansion of enforcement powers and their impact on civil liberties. • Use your platform to clearly warn the public about what is at stake and to build pressure against this policy. This is a line that should not be crossed. Allowing ICE to expand into airports without clear limits and accountability sets a dangerous precedent that will be difficult to reverse. Congress must act now to stop this before it becomes the new normal.