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An Open Letter

To: Rep. Case, Sen. Hirono, Sen. Schatz

From: A constituent in Honolulu, HI

January 25

I demand that ICE be held accountable for the atrocities they have committed. They have brutally murdered a second non-violent citizen in Minnesota. I urge you to oppose any budget resolution or continuing resolution that continues funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in its current form. Recent events make clear that ICE is no longer functioning as a lawful, accountable immigration enforcement agency. Its operations have escalated into violence against civilians, widespread constitutional violations, and an alarming politicization of federal law enforcement. These actions have not improved public safety. Instead, they have destabilized communities and undermined democratic governance. In Minnesota, large-scale ICE deployments have coincided with fatal shootings, repeated use-of-force incidents, and sustained unrest. Rather than accountability, the federal response has included threats to invoke the Insurrection Act, preparations for deploying active-duty military forces domestically, and criminal probes targeting elected state and local officials who publicly opposed ICE operations. At the same time, federal authorities have refused to open an investigation into the ICE agent who killed a civilian during an enforcement action. Senior administration officials have repeatedly provided contradictory or demonstrably false public statements about ICE practices, denied the use of chemical agents despite video evidence, and dismissed documented misconduct as a matter of “optics.” This pattern reflects an agency operating without transparency, oversight, or respect for constitutional limits

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