1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

I urge you to condition DHS funding on compliance with constitutional norms, restore access to bond hearings, prohibit mass transfers designed to evade judicial review, and reassert Congress’s role in setting humane, lawful immigration policy. This is not about partisan politics. It is about whether the United States will tolerate mass incarceration without due process. Congress must draw that line now. (In a rushed decision issued just three days after oral argument, two judges adopted an extreme interpretation of a 1996 immigration statute that more than 150 federal judges—across ideological lines and across the country—have already rejected. The recent interpretation redefines millions of people who have long lived in the United States as if they were newly “arriving” at the border, stripping them of the right to a bond hearing and subjecting them to mandatory detention for the entire duration of removal proceedings. This is egregious, unacceptable. You must restore bond hearings and funding, and prohibit the mass transfers that would result from this interpretation.) PLEASE Act now!